The fire chief said there were 307 people on the plane, and that about 60 are still unaccounted for. 123 who did not need to be transported and remained in the terminals.181 transported to hospitals (49 immediately for serious injuries, 132 sent later).Officials are giving new numbers, indicating that there is now only one person whose status is unknown. San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee noted the "tremendous city response" to the crash, including translators dispatched from various organizations to assist the passengers and grief counselors from the health department who made themselves available on the site. All Accounted For:įire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said in another news conference that everyone has been accounted for, and the death toll from the accident remains at two.
Crash Victims Identified:Ĭhinese state media has identified the two crash victims as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16-year-old middle school students from China's Zhejiang province.Īt least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the flight en route to summer camps, the Associated Press is reporting. We're following the news as it comes in and have been posting updates. We didn't think it was possible," she says. "We're just thrilled and stunned that so many survived the crash. When the white escape slides appeared against the black smoke, she took it as a positive sign. Turner says the tail of the plane broke off and the aircraft twisted down the runway, smoke rising. And so as it came in, the tail of the plane struck first," she tells NPR. "And then I noticed that the tail was very, very low. She had taken out her camera to snap a shot of a jet waiting on the runway, but then saw the Asiana plane coming in for a landing. Stephanie Turner, a visitor to California, was walking back to her hotel in view of the airport when the crash occurred. Videos and photos showed the escape ramps deployed and passengers walking away. Passenger accounts and eyewitness reports in the first hour after the crash indicated that many of those on board were able to escape before the crippled Boeing 777 caught fire.
"Obviously, we have a lot of work to do," she said, noting that it was too early to tell what had caused the crash. National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Debbie Hersman said investigators were being deployed to the scene. Two people died Saturday in the crash-landing at San Francisco International Airport of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea, San Francisco's fire chief says.įire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says everyone who had been on board the flight is accounted for.