Looks like the back tail-section of the plane clipped a stone barrier dividing the runway and a body of water. Per Wikipedia the planes average 314 to 451 passengers.

7/6/2013 4:22:15 PM

thread hour late... whats up with tub news? late not as usual...

7/6/2013 4:25:49 PM

How about some footage

7/6/2013 4:29:06 PM

from http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hrewx/asiana_airlines_boeing_777_has_crashed_at_the_san/

[Edited on July 6, 2013 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

7/6/2013 4:34:16 PM

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/ktvu-live-news/vtSfR/?updated

7/6/2013 4:36:11 PM

^^that forum is a head ache to read

7/6/2013 4:39:54 PM

I thought the same at first, just takes some getting used to.

7/6/2013 4:43:10 PM

I'm at SFO now, waiting on flight back to CLT. Perfect vantage of the fire from our gate. All flights cancelled, had to rebook for a red eye flight tonight. Fun with a 10month old! ?? Small inconvenience though compared to those on board, so not complaining.

7/6/2013 5:10:38 PM

I blame it on some dyke.

7/6/2013 5:20:18 PM

Asiana Airlines about to get sued

7/6/2013 6:37:23 PM

Anyone die?

7/6/2013 6:48:39 PM

Someone is out of a job...

[Edited on July 6, 2013 at 6:56 PM. Reason : .]

7/6/2013 6:56:34 PM

Quote :

"ncsuapex 35178 Posts user info edit post I blame it on some dyke"

way to keep it classy

7/6/2013 7:03:06 PM

Quote :

"way to keep it classy"

way to completely remove the humor detecting portions of your psyche

7/6/2013 7:06:54 PM

7/6/2013 7:12:20 PM

I understand it was trying to be funny, but it wasn't successful. Even if it was, still not classy. Google the word "classy".

7/6/2013 7:12:43 PM

Fermat sucks

if he dies an untimely death I will quietly celebrate

7/6/2013 7:46:21 PM

This is clearly a test run of a super-secret gov't weapon for taking down aircraft in flight. It's obvious a laser weapon of some kind vaporized one of the engines during landing maneuvers. They are probably going to use this on whatever plane Snowden gets on to kill him

7/6/2013 7:54:47 PM

Surprised nobody in this thread has mentioned the fact that it's an Asian Airline or made any racist comments about Asians not knowing how to drive/fly yet...

7/6/2013 8:13:46 PM

you just did but you blamed society for it

7/6/2013 8:20:12 PM

I know that's a joke, but Korean Air has been the best airline I've ever flown on

7/6/2013 8:20:32 PM

Quote :

"Eyewitness reports state that the aircraft had its left turn signal on since at least honolulu"

7/6/2013 8:26:16 PM

still took longer than expected

7/6/2013 8:29:58 PM

iop1

7/6/2013 8:29:58 PM

how are 60 people still missing? did they leave the airport?

7/6/2013 8:39:55 PM

yeah they think people got picked up by their families/SOs and haven't reported back

7/6/2013 8:43:35 PM

Lol plane could have been full of known terrorists and they crashed to avoid customs.

7/6/2013 8:46:47 PM

obviously the Koreans just attacked us. world war 3 bitches.

7/6/2013 9:14:11 PM

Early reports said the plane was coming in at an awkward angle, so it may have been a cross wind landing gone bad. That sucks.

7/6/2013 9:29:04 PM

snowden escapes

ERIK SNOWDEN IS IN NEW YORK

7/6/2013 9:33:50 PM

777 is an impeccable plane. Hard for me to believe this could've anything other than pilot error, bad crosswinds, or possibly a bird strike just before crossing the threshold. All it would take is a drop of 50 feet or so to nail that jetty.

7/6/2013 10:27:29 PM

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"Fermat sucks if he dies an untimely death I will quietly celebrate"

You cut me, dawg. You cut me deep.

Not really. Fuck you and the nigger you enslaved to bring you here

7/6/2013 11:19:20 PM

clearly korean terrorists.

7/6/2013 11:23:37 PM

^^^^ bourne ultimatum

nice

7/6/2013 11:35:10 PM

of course it was crosswinds. ask emce, duke or wraith what the AD cross section of these beasts is.
They shouldn't be allowed in the fucking sky but for their ability to fly in zero aero lift like a rocket

7/6/2013 11:38:04 PM

Asiana Airlines doesn't have a particularly good track record and this certainly doesn't help their cause...

7/7/2013 1:23:01 PM

Quote :

"Since the crash, clues have emerged in witness accounts of the planes approach and video of the wreckage, leading one aviation expert to say the aircraft may have approached the runway too low and something may have caught the runway lip -- a seawall at the foot of the runway."

Hmmm. Looks like I was right!

7/7/2013 1:54:15 PM

Was it Outliers that had a whole chapter on how Koreans are bad pilots?

7/7/2013 2:19:22 PM

On a basis of culture and power differential in conversation for Koreans does not allow them to effectively communicate critical information efficiently enough. Ones from the US are just like all other US pilots.

7/7/2013 2:39:53 PM

good sentence bro

7/7/2013 3:14:31 PM

lulz

7/7/2013 3:52:29 PM

Quote :

"Asiana Airlines doesn't have a particularly good track record and this certainly doesn't help their cause..."

From everything I've seen/read, they have a relatively unblemished record in comparison to other airlines.

7/7/2013 4:27:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Orw3rbj5MI

Looks exactly like what was stated earlier. Without ILS assisted landing, the pilot flying it in manually came in too low, tried to pull up and had a tailstrike on the seawall. Crazy to see that it DID actually do a half somersault with the whole rear of the plane spinning around and half rising in the air. Damn near looks like it was trying to flip over. If that had happened, the death count would have probably been a LOT higher.

7/7/2013 4:53:37 PM

this NTSB lady is waaaaaay more attractive than you'd expect an NTSB lady to be

7/7/2013 5:04:19 PM

That's 8 OMGs/minute, otherwise known as the Allahu Akbar coefficient.

[Edited on July 7, 2013 at 6:33 PM. Reason : Correction, 9 OMGs per minute.]

7/7/2013 6:31:03 PM

I was wondering when an eyewitness video would surface. Seems like everything is caught on video these days.

I bet he didn't expect to film something like that!

7/7/2013 6:57:51 PM

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"From everything I've seen/read, they have a relatively unblemished record in comparison to other airlines."

Compared to Korean Air, you're absolutely right...after reading Korean Air's incident history:



[Edited on July 7, 2013 at 7:44 PM. Reason : ]

7/7/2013 7:43:59 PM

Quote :

"Investigators also said they were looking into the possibility that rescue crews ran over one of the two teenagers killed in the crash on Saturday. Officials released the details without explaining why the pilots were flying so slow -- or why rescue officials didn't see the girl."

Ouch

7/7/2013 9:10:49 PM

Quote :

"Without ILS assisted landing, the pilot flying it in manually came in too low, tried to pull up and had a tailstrike on the seawall."

Yea... looks like the guy just got low and slow, "Drug in" and shorted it. Also factor in that he may not have recognized it early enough to get the engines spooled up to go around. I can't see anything about crosswinds from the video. (not that you can really see much from the video anyway)

7/7/2013 9:34:30 PM

so why are humans still manually driving vehicles these days anyhow?

[Edited on July 7, 2013 at 10:19 PM. Reason : let a computer handle that shit and you can sit back and drink a beer instead]

7/7/2013 10:18:53 PM