Plane crash at San Francisco airport

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777 crashed on landing. Coverage on cnn now...
 
Looks like the chutes were deployed and people got off, well I hope that's the case.
 
Asiana Airlines. One of only seven five-star rated airlines.
 
According to the SF fire service all crew and passengers were evacuated with some burn injuries.

Edit: The 777 has only ever been involved in one fatal incident where a refueller was killed on the ground. One other 777 crash landed short of the runway at Heathrow on January 17 2008 as a result of ice in the fuel and the heat exchanger icing over resulting in a loss of power to the engine.
 
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The 777 has an impressive safety record, this is only the second hull-loss incident since its launch! The other one being the BA that crashed at LHR due to the flaw in the heat exchangers, this is going to be an interesting report!
 
There was a compressor stall incident involving an Asiana Airlines 777 in 2009. Smoke, fire and an emergency landing. Not clear whether that was caused by a foreign object or poor maintenance?
 
Segg said:
The 777 has an impressive safety record, this is only the second hull-loss incident since its launch! The other one being the BA that crashed at LHR due to the flaw in the heat exchangers, this is going to be an interesting report!
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Well most people don't know models and all they hear is Boeing and after the dreamliner battery issue this is just ginna make it worse..
 
Preliminary analysis: pilot brought the plane in too low on a visual approach, which sheared off the aft landing gear, causing tailstrike and subsequent breakup and fire. Latest (unconfirmed) reports say 2 fatalities and 61 injuries.
 
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Yep 2 fatalities and 40 badly injured according to SF chronicle.
I read a speculation on PPrune that these Korean pilots like to auto land as much as possible but make them land the plane manually...
Tragic for one of the worlds best airlines and unnerving to think we can take safe landings always for granted.
Asiana is creating bad PR by not mentioning anything so far...
 
The South Korean Boeing 777 which crashed in San Francisco after landing short of the runway was only seven years old and had no known mechanical problems, the Asiana Airlines CEO said Sunday.

"We purchased this airplane in March 2006... currently we understand that there are no engine or mechanical problems," Yoon Young-Doo told a press conference, adding that the two people killed were Chinese nationals.

South Korea's transport ministry said separately both the dead were female, born in 1996 and 1997.

The ministry said the plane's tail hit the runway and the aircraft veered to the left off the runway. A total of 181 people were injured.

Yoon said the crew had made an in-flight broadcast as usual, "asking passengers to buckle up for landing. There was no emergency alarm".

He said one pilot had more than 10,000 flying hours, and the other more than 9,000.

"Our pilots strictly comply with aviation rules," the CEO said.

He said the two people who died were passengers seated at the back of the plane.
 
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