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Flight Tried to Abort Landing Seconds Before Crash

Jul 7, 2013 4:54 PM CDT

Flight Tried to Abort Landing Seconds Before Crash

But cockpit voice recorder reveals nothing was obviously wrong before that

(Newser) - Some news from the cockpit voice recorder of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 is finally in: the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San Francisco airport, says NTSB chief Deborah Hersman. There was also a call to increase...

2 Left Paralyzed in
SF Plane Crash

Jul 7, 2013 2:59 PM CDT

2 Left Paralyzed in SF Plane Crash

19 still at SF General Hospital, 6 in critical condition

(Newser) - Two passengers have been left paralyzed in the San Francisco plane crash , which also killed two others—now identified as Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, both 16-year-old girls from China . Nineteen victims of the crash remain at San Francisco General Hospital, six of them in critical condition, says Chief of...

Asiana Passengers: Plane Was Dangerously Low

SF Crash Passengers:
Plane Was Dangerously Low

Jul 7, 2013 7:51 AM CDT

SF Crash Passengers: Plane Was Dangerously Low

NTSB recovered flight recorders; Facebook honcho was supposed to be aboard

(Newser) - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 swept in to land at San Francisco's airport at such a dangerously low altitude that passengers could see the ocean 10 feet below them. "I don't see any runway, I just see water," one tells CNN . Seconds later, the plane plowed into...

2 Dead in
San Francisco
Plane Crash

UPDATED

Jul 6, 2013 6:48 PM CDT

2 Dead in San Francisco Plane Crash

2 fatalities, 181 hospitalized

(Newser) - Two people have died and 181 have been hospitalized in a plane crash at San Francisco Airport today. One of the 291 passengers and 16 crew members who was on board Asiana Airlines flight 214 remains unaccounted for, reports CBS . Some 49 people are in critical condition, reports CNN , with...

South Korean Marines Mistakenly Fire at Asiana Airlines Passenger Plane

Oops: S. Korea
Fires at Passenger Jet

Jun 18, 2011 7:26 AM CDT

Oops: S. Korea Fires at Passenger Jet

Mistakes Asiana Air plane for N. Korean military plane, misses completely

(Newser) - In a sign of how twitchy things are getting on the Korean border, South Korean troops yesterday fired at a commercial plane carrying 119 people, mistaking the Asiana Airlines jet for one belonging to North Korea's military. Fortunately, they missed entirely and the plane landed without incident. "The...