Plane Crash At San Francisco Airport [VIDEO]: Asiana AirLines “Dropped Low, Descended Too Abruptly”; 2 Dead, 181 Injured

Two people were dead and more than 181 people on board were immediately rushed to the hospital after the plane crash that happened in San Francisco Airport.

Chicago Tribune reported that there are more than 300 people on board in Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 when it crashed on landing. The plane crash happened on Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, Saturday, July 6.

Aside from 2 people that have died, and more than 181 taken to the hospital out of 307 people on board during the plane crash, there was one person who still remained unaccounted for, as told by the authorities on Saturday night. Earlier, the officials said that there were 60 unaccounted for.

The passengers of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 included 141 Chinese 77 South Koreans and 61 US citizens.

Watch the video of the plane crash below.

The plane crash occurred as the Asian Airlines Boeing 777 was landing at a runway that started at the edge of the San Francisco Bay. According to the report, one of the plane crash survivor told that the "plane appeared to be coming in too low over the water, and the pilot seemed to be trying to gain height just before the aircraft struck the runway."

Moreover, plane crash survivor, Benjamin Levy stated in an interview to a local NBC station through phone, "I know the airport pretty well, so I realized the guy was a bit too low, too fast, and somehow he was not going to hit the runway on time, so he was too low ... he put some gas and tried to go up again."

Describing the Asiana Airlines plane crash, he added, "But it was too late, so we hit the runway pretty bad, and then we started going up in the air again, and then landed again, pretty hard."

Furthermore, the report stated citing the data from the last 3 minutes of the flight from a leading Flight Tracking Service, FlightAware.com, "The plane may have been too low and descended too quickly on its approach to the runway,"

The report explained, "The plane's rate of descent dropped abruptly, then it increased its altitude to 200 feet from 100 feet" and this could possibly indicate the pilot had "tried to power up the engines and climb in the final seconds in an unsuccessful attempt to stay in the air and touch down in the landing zone of the runway."

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