Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco Airport.

[James48843]

[h=1]BREAKING: Boeing 777 crashes at San Francisco Airport.[/h]Source: Breaking News & Top Stories - World News, US & Local | NBC News

Just breaking, no details yet. -just pictures of a plane on fire at SFO.

 

[James48843]

[h=1]Boeing 777 crashes while landing at San Francisco airport[/h]A Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The airplane was coming in from Seoul, South Korea and apparently crashed sometime after touching down on Runway 28. No other details were immediately available.

 

[James48843]

(CNN) -- A Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, an FAA spokesman told CNN.


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 airport is located about 12 miles south of downtown San Francisco.


Asiana Airlines is one of South Korea's two major airlines, the other being Korean Air.

 

[James48843]

Descent profile shows they flew it right into the ground- was descending at 1,320 feet per minute when only 600 feet off the ground.


Flight Track Log

 

[nnuut]

James, do you know anything about airplanes?

 

[nasa1974]

Descent profile shows they flew it right into the ground- was descending at 1,320 feet per minute when only 600 feet off the ground.


Flight Track Log

Interesting. Black boxes should reveal a lot.

 

[MrBowl]

Certainly looks like pilot error at this point. I feel bad for everyone involved, and I'm glad more people weren't killed. This is about to be all about lawyers.

 

[James48843]

James, do you know anything about airplanes?

A bit.

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

James, do you know anything about airplanes?

Leave him alone, he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

 

[nnuut]

Pilot Was Attempting His First Boeing 777 Landing at San Francisco Airport

Asiana Airlines says that Lee Gang-guk had only 43 hours of experience flying Boeing 777 jets and was being assisted by a more experienced colleague before crash that killed two, injured dozens.
Pilot was attempting his first Boeing 777 landing at San Francisco airport, airline says | Fox News

 

[James48843]

This seems to be a good description of what happened.

Asiana 214 - Wired Description


Note: Both the ILS (Instrument Landing System radio vertical glideslope guidance) and the PAPI (Pilot visual glideslope light set) were out of service at SFO Runway 28L, an over-water approach. Over-water approaches can be more difficult to judge height than over land, due to the lack of visual references on the ground.

A NOTAM(Notice to Airmen) for the ILS (radio) being out of service was issued in June.
The NOTAM for the PAPI (visual) being out of service was not issued until after the accident.

SFO 07/046 SFO RWY 28L PAPI OTS WEF 1307062219
CREATED: 06 Jul 2013 22:19:00 SOURCE: KOAKYFYX
NOTAM SFO 07/029

!SFO 06/005 SFO NAV ILS RWY 28L GP OTS WEF 1306011400-1308222359
CREATED: 01 Jun 2013 13:40:00
SOURCE: KOAKYFYX

The pilot would have no way of knowing in advance of the approach that the
PAPI visual light vertical guidance system was not working.

 

[nnuut]

At 500 feet and just 34 seconds before impact, the airspeed slowed to 134 knots
Not enough wind over the wings!:suspicious: