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Old 07-06-2013, 01:16 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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It looks bad. Really bad.

Boeing 777 crashes while landing at SFO | www.ktvu.com
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Old 07-06-2013, 01:22 PM
 
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The aircraft still looks intact, so I'm hoping that there were not any fatalities.
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Old 07-06-2013, 01:36 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Latest update (per Twitter) is that all passengers and crew are accounted for. One of them tweeted a pic of the destroyed plane from the tarmac. Amazing!
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Old 07-06-2013, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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Is it me or is everyone blind. The report states that the plane flipped over on it's back..Yet the photo posted has the plane up right?
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Old 07-06-2013, 01:57 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I heard that the plane cartwheeled - flipped on it's back and flipped again right side up.
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Old 07-06-2013, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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If you watch it on CNN it seems clear that the pilot landed a tad short of the runway.

I am an ex-flight attendant from the 80's and believe me the scariest place to land IMO was SFO. It always terrified me!

What a nightmare event! I hate flying.
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Old 07-06-2013, 02:09 PM
 
Location: Under a bridge
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There are reports that the plane cart-wheeled. Hard to believe that since the plane is pretty much intact.
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Old 07-06-2013, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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There are reports that the plane cart-wheeled. Hard to believe that since the plane is pretty much intact.
Just hysterical people that think they saw something they really did not see.

On CNN they show the embankment just before the runway and it is clearly marked that the plane touched down short of this and there is a huge scrape and broken debris where the planes tail dragged and broke apart in the area. Landing gear also broke off.

No reports of everyone one being accounted for so far but some are thinking that the passenger who took the photo of the people escaping the plane and posted it on his twitter account = everyone is safe... but it does not = that.

There is no official report on the number of injuries as of yet.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvp...ive/cvpstream2
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Old 07-06-2013, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Baghdad by the Bay (San Francisco, California)
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Looks like they landed short to me. It could have been wind shear that caused a stall at the last second, making them short.

The reports from witnesses say the plane was landing in standard attitude and clipped the end of the runway with its tail. It then slammed on the runway, breaking off the gear.

Either simple pilot error (highly unlikely, IMO) or wind shear, where the wind shifts drastically from behind the aircraft, causing loss of lift (aerodynamic stall) at the worst possible moment.
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Old 07-06-2013, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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The link I posted is a steaming video and it shows the short of runway initial impact.

CNN Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
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