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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal aviation official says an Asiana Airlines flight has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. Federal Aviation ... Ref. Source 3

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Flights into and out of San Francisco International Airport have been canceled following the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul, the FAA says.


-- Flight 214 left Seoul's Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and 23 minutes to California, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and commercial air traffic.

-- Anthony Castorani, who saw the flight land from a nearby hotel, said he saw the plane touch the ground then noticed a larger plume of white smoke. "You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft," He told CNN. "It began to cartwheel."

-- The FAA identified the plane as Asiana Airlines Flight 214, en route from Seoul, South Korea.

-- CNN's Dana Bash, who was heading to the airport at the time of the crash, said she noticed smoke emanatin g from the runway. She said she had not noticed any arrivals or departures since the crash.

-- Video from the scene posted on YouTube showed dark gray smoke rising from the plane, which appeared to be upright. Evacuation slides could be seen extending from one side of the aircraft, from which there was no apparent smoke.

-- The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a "Go team" That will be led by chairwoman Deborah Hersman to investigate the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport, the agency said Saturday. Ref. CNN

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According to media reports, the San Francisco Fire Department has confirmed two dead and more than 60 injured in the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul that crash landed at San Francisco's airport Saturday. Ref. USAToday

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San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is treating eight adults and two children -- all of them in critical condition -- who were injured in Saturday's Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport, the hospital said in a statement. Six of the patients are female and four are male.

A National Transportation Safety Board team is about to leave from Washington for San Francisco to probe the crash, NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman told reporters. "We have not determined what the focus of this investigation is yet. ... Everything is on the table at this point." The team will include people focused on operations; human performance; survival factors; airport operations; and aircraft systems, structure and power.

San Francisco Airport is holding a press conference momentarily regarding the crash. Ref. CNN

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They're still trying to find everyone and its like 60 or so that are missing. Might be that they just miscounted on the way to the hospital but we still need to see what caused this crash, so terrible for the families.

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Last update in the news said they were only missing one or only one was unaccounted for but I agree this is a tragedy.

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Doctors have seen a wide range of injuries after Saturday's plane crash landing in San Francisco, including "Large amounts of abdominal injuries, a huge amount of spine fractures, some of which include paralysis and head trauma," Said Dr. Margaret Knudson, chief of surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Doctors have also treated "Patients who had severe road rash, suggesting that they were dragged," She said. Ref. CNN

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The cockpit voice recorder of Asiana Flight 214 reveals the pilots called to initiate a "Go-around" At another landing 1.5 seconds before impact, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman told reporters on Sunday.

Four seconds prior to impact, crew members were alerted to the fact that they were approaching a stall, Hersman said. She said a call from a crew member to increase speed was made approximately seven seconds before impact. Ref. CNN