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A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash landed at San Francisco international airport.
Fortunately looks like a lot of survivors. Asiana 214 landed short. I know this airport well and the runway in question reaches out into SF bay. The approach is from the south - not sure if it was 28L or 28R, but looks like it was 50 yards short and the tail clipped the boulders at the edge of the water. I think it's probably 28L.
At first look it looks very similar to the BA incident at LHR a few years back - but everyone was pretty certain that Boeing had fixed the frozen fuel problem.
The aircraft involved was registered HL7742 and was a mere 7.4 years old. The witness reports seem very strange with regards to the aircraft being out of control and a separation of the tail fin and one of the PW4090 engines. I flew on this particular aircraft in 2009 on one of my legs from London to Sydney and it was a very nice airplane to fly on. There are now 2 confirmed fatalities and 61 injuries
Looks now like we have some fatalities - not good.
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