Boeing 777 Crashes at San Francisco International Airport

[GigaG]

An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed earlier today on approach to San Francisco. Fatalities and injuries not confirmed, but I heard about 2 unconfirmed fatalities-

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/06/us/california-plane-incident/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[The49er]

2 confirmed dead last time I checked, with 60 unaccounted for.

 

I was actually over at SFO today, trying to fly to Philadelphia. We noticed what appeared to be dust coming from the airport area, but we figured it was just a grass fire. However, black smoke became visible, and we knew that something was off. Eventually, we discovered what had happened. The airport was completely shut down for several hours, including the nearby freeway for a while. Airport staff reports on when flights would resume conflicted, but after much waiting we were told that "no flights are leaving today...maybe tomorrow, too". After rebooking our flight, we headed home. Good thing we left, because even though two runways are reopening, our flight got cancelled.

[Jew]

Sounds like the pilot came in low and clipped the sea wall. Glad so many people actually survived!

[XYZ]

I'm very surprised to how low the amount of deaths were (and relieved). It's crazy that I was just 30 miles from this plane crash.

[805Andrew]

It's crazy that this happened, especially on a clear day when SF has so many foggy days. I heard reports that the pilot was using auto-pilot for the landing, though this is not 100% confirmed. I'm glad not more than two people died so far, and hopefully no more will die. One of the passengers onboard who was interviewed on CNN yesterday compared the landing to a jarring roller coaster ride. I've flown out of SFO numerous times, including trans-Atlantic flights to London and Amsterdam on 777s. I much prefer SFO over LAX ( I live halfway between both so those are my main international options).

[Jew]

Sounds like the pilot screwed up the approach. Was too high and too fast and tried to correct. The ILS was down for maintenance, so it had to be a visual approach.

[SharkTums]

It worries me more when we see these accidents due to human error. Ugh. At least when a plane crashes or has an incident due to mechanical reasons we learn and can correct. In these cases we can't really do anything other than try to get better pilots which from what I hear we have fewer and fewer of!

[ernierocker]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

Video of the plane crashing. Sounds like it was the pilot's first landing at SFO.

[gisco]

SFO is an interesting airport to land at coming in over the water. Kind of sounds like the pilot over corrected.

[Angry_Gumball]

Lovely bay area news station KTVU really screwed this one up (I'm sure many locals have seen this already)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ0sTJ1AIaM

 

Yea, Now that the video has gone viral soon after it aired, KTVU issued an apology.

Prior to air, the names were confirmed by an NTSB official in the agency’s Washington, D.C. office. Despite that confirmation, KTVU realized the names that aired were not accurate and issued an apology later in the newscast.

 

The correct names of the pilots in the cockpit were Lee Gang-guk and Lee Jeong-Min.

 

“We sincerely regret the error and took immediate action to apologize, both in the newscast where the mistake occurred, as well as on our website and social media sites,” said Tom Raponi, KTVU/KICU Vice President & General Manager. “Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again.”

[Jew]

NTSB confirmed it was an intern of theirs who gave those names. The producer was probably more concerned with getting a scoop then realizing how fake the names were.

[SharkTums]

Have they removed the wreckage yet? Last I heard was that it was supposed to be gone by the end of the weekend. I want to know how jealous I should be of Robb flying into SFO on Monday!!!

[Angry_Gumball]

NTSB confirmed it was an intern of theirs who gave those names. The producer was probably more concerned with getting a scoop then realizing how fake the names were.

 

Not to mention, KTVU is all over this story as they claim to be the first to cover every aspect of it. See what happens when one jumps to be 'in' first with content? At least KTVU admitted fault for their part of it rather than just pushing it all on the NTSB. Hastiness can and will nip one in the butt

 

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Have they removed the wreckage yet? Last I heard was that it was supposed to be gone by the end of the weekend. I want to know how jealous I should be of Robb flying into SFO on Monday!!!

 

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/san-francisco-runway-at-sfo-quickly-reopened-after/v6TZJ/

Yup, it's been cleared and runway is now open.

[SharkTums]

^Oh good, now I'm not jealous of Robb at all!

[Coaster_Fanatic]

I don't know if anyone else has seen, but CNN reported that a third person has died from injuries from the plane crash.

[SharkTums]

^I read that it was another teenager from the same group that the two deceased kids were from.

[gerstlaueringvar]

The photos of those three teenagers when they were alive are all over the Internet now in China. Reporters interviewed their parents, teachers, friends etc and saying how great they were. Respect parents, good at study, helpful, friendly...

[Angry_Gumball]

In other news, still related to this, looks like Asiana has plans on suing KTVU (bay area news station) for reporting the bogus names, as an act of 'defamation.'

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/asiana-reportedly-to-sue-ktvu-in-san-francisco-for-fake-pilot-names/2013/07/16/7b938836-ee2d-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html

[ernierocker]

Yes, because the plane crash wasn't defaming enough...

[Jew]

Survivors are now also suing Boeing.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/17/law-firm-says-it-suing-boeing-over-asiana-crash/

[cfc]

In other news, still related to this, looks like Asiana has plans on suing KTVU (bay area news station) for reporting the bogus names, as an act of 'defamation.'

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/asiana-reportedly-to-sue-ktvu-in-san-francisco-for-fake-pilot-names/2013/07/16/7b938836-ee2d-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html

 

The reporters should've been fired for being just plain stupid.

[Jew]

^Asiana backed away from their lawsuit...but I agree that the producers should be fired for not catching the obvious joke.

[805Andrew]

In other news, still related to this, looks like Asiana has plans on suing KTVU (bay area news station) for reporting the bogus names, as an act of 'defamation.'

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/asiana-reportedly-to-sue-ktvu-in-san-francisco-for-fake-pilot-names/2013/07/16/7b938836-ee2d-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html

 

I saw this mentioned on The Colbert Report in a funny segment. Like KTVU FOX 2 reporting those fake names which they didn't make up themselves is what's going to tarnish Asiana's image. They report, you decide. And I decided that those fake names were pretty funny.