A BOEING 777 jetliner operated by Asiana Airlines crashed while landing at San Francisco International
Airport on Saturday, according to the United States Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Lynn Lunsford.
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.
However, according to the New York Times, images and video posted on social media by eyewitnesses to the crash showed the plane laying on the ground, its nose pointed slightly upward, apparently on fire and billowing smoke.
The crash could be seen from some distance.
The images appeared to show that the plane had lost its tail.
Stefanie Laine, one of those who posted on Twitter that she had witnessed the crash, said that the “plane came in at a bad angle, flipped, exploded.”
Firefighters on the scene, but there were no reports yet of the extent of casualties. It was not clear how many people were on board. The F.A.A. said it could not immediately provide further details.