07-08-2013, 12:12 PM
(07-08-2013, 11:48 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: It's not determined that there was any pilot error yet. Authorities are already pulling data from the black box.
Terrible that 2 Chinese teens were killed, but pretty amazing that was the extent of fatalities (so far). The emergency workers at the scene were incredible. According to the local news, a couple of passengers were thrown into the water and were rescued without serious injury. It's not clear if the pilots are in the hospital or not, but will be interesting to hear their statements and accounts when they're made public.
SF General was crazy busy this weekend - they really had their hands full. Saw a report this morning that a couple of the passengers are in critical condition there, but most have been downgraded from critical or released. Good news.
You should post the video from CNN that shows the actual crash landing. The plane came this close to flipping over and if that had been the case, we'd be talking about hundreds of fatalities.
Amazing stroke of good fortune.