No justice for Castro Victims that HE raped women and killed children. What is bigger that children that Castro offered a plead deal????

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGNrauxIM/2013/07/26/cleveland-kidnap-rape-suspect-ariel-castro-agrees

Rape and for deal WEED and kept metal box

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lake-county-pot-farm-arrest-20130726,0,2660533.story/

  

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Teen on pot farm
BY JOSEPH SERNA
July 26, 2013, 9:42 a.m.
A missing Los Angeles teenager was sexually assaulted, kept in a metal box and forced to process marijuana for her two captors, according to a federal criminal complaint filed this week.

Prosecutors said the girl was held by Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 24, who are charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, using a minor in a drug operation and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.

According to prosecutors, the case was blown open when a Los Angeles police detective called Lake County sheriff’s officials asking about a connection between Balletto and the girl.

DOCUMENT: Read the criminal complaint

An initial visit to the Balletto’s 680-acre property in Lake County by deputies on April 29 turned up nothing. But the next day, the girl called sheriff’s deputies back on a cellphone, court documents show.

The girl told authorities she was doing “OK” and was with Balletto in Sacramento. Authorities traced the cellphone to West Sacramento, where police found the girl in a hotel with Pearmain.

Police arrested the two. Police also allegedly found a bag full of marijuana, prescription drugs, condoms and a pregnancy test. Pearmain also had a notebook on him that had an apparent script for the girl to read to police over the phone, authorities claim. Sketches of a marijuana greenhouse and a list of supplies were also found.

The girl told authorities she was having consensual sex with both men, which officials noted is not legally possible given her age. She said the men told her they were on a “mission” with the marijuana and that they were holding her because she was so good at “trimming” or processing it for drying.

On May 1, authorities raided Balletto’s rural home and his second home in Lakeport.

On the rural property, which the girl knew as “the farm,” investigators found a metal box with holes in it. Spray painted on the outside was the first initial of the teenage girl’s name and inside was a decal that “depicted an animal skull surrounding the shadow image of a human skull with the logo ‘Bone Collector,’” according to the court documents.

Human hair was found inside, prosecutors said. The girl said she was kept in the box for a total of three days and was given water through a hose. The box was hoisted into the air and tilted at an angle so when water was poured inside it would wash the girl and clean human waste out of the box, court documents say.

Authorities said they also found a poem signed by the girl inside describing life in the box.

Elsewhere on the property, investigators found sex toys and a wooden-framed “rack” to hoist and immobilize people. It was used for sexual bondage and sadomasochism, authorities said. A white towel below the rack had blood on it, according to prosecutors.

Outside of Pearmain’s trailer on the property, authorities also found a pile of “well-worn” disassembled wood, metal and leather.

More than 1,200 marijuana plants were found on the property and destroyed, according to court documents. There are indications the girl may not have been the only victim.

During a search of the Lakeport property, authorities found a ponytail of human hair inside Balletto’s gun safe, along with 17 guns and $4,000 in cash. Balletto’s girlfriend was staying at the home with their five children, officials said.

The two face 10 years to life in prison but have yet to be charged in the alleged abuse of the teen.

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This high pressure, high temperature process destroys all the “heart-friendly” fats originally contained in the oil and transforms it into dangerous trans fats. According to a shocking study by the University of Florida at Gainesville, your vegetable oil can contain up to 4.6% hidden trans fat that’s not on the label. Kind of scary, I know. But there’s a super easy way to avoid these hidden and dangerous fats. You can read all about it on the next page. Step #2: STOP Avoiding Saturated Fats (You've been lied to) The media, doctors and the big food industry spend millions of dollars every year trying to convince all of us that red meat is “fattening” and why you should avoid it if you want to lose belly fat. After all, it does contain a lot of dangerous saturated fats – right? Don’t fall for it. It’s just another nutrition myth that prevents you from eating some of the BEST fat burning foods on the planet. 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The truth of nutrient, if I couldn't tell others but you should nkow.

Because I found the truth on foods, I was able loose worthy from size 16 womens to 8 womens and kept the wieght off for 4 years. And been told I haven't aged.

Lol, Nah He just know what State Truly and honorably Respect Law and Order and Justice for all.

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkchELEgRTZWVkGICAgICU_LMKDA/2013/07/12/sen-jeff-sessions-on-napolitano-resignation-sec

No moral man will defy his moral conscience he has for the lord, you know GOD. politicians you forget there is a GOD, and no matter how much power or money you politicians obtain, NO MAN IS ABOVE GOD. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WISH AND WANT TO BELIEVE YOU CAN. IT WILL NEVER BE.
GOD WILL NOT BE A LIAR.

Lay off the gay people they have the right to be miserable in marriage Too

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkchELEgRTZWVkGICAgIDo15YIDA/2013/07/12/supporters-of-californias-gay-marriage-ban-ask-st
People what do you care who others are fucking! Are you the fuck them? No! At lest there willing to be committed to one person and take responsibility and can pay marriage taxes too just like us. It better to control disease of sex by stay with the one person your with. Right! It would be worst, if they have to run around and hide, that how people catch thing when one in the marriage goes wondering in bonding and fucking around.
I hear the bullshit of  the faith the corruption of children, bullshit If your a parents is your responsibility,to teach and enforce those moral teachings. Don't blame others for your lack of involvements with your children and not being there to show and enforce those teachings. And since you didn't take the time someone else teaches your children where you lack if there the lucky ones, others are listed and doomed. And that you the parents fault for
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T educating and enforcing those moral teaches, cuz when you truly believe in your heart, there no temptation that will break your faith. So who gives a fuck what gays are doing. Make it legal and profitable for us all.and be rid of the lie of marriages , that could of avoid those victims of deceit, cuz a gay felt he had hide who they are. And there children get left alone with no one to explain why. It's the small things that make the difference. So wake up people.

FROM MY OWN LIPS

Look THE TRUTH! Trying to setup CALIFORNIAN'S IMAGE, HATERS

http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkchELEgRTZWVkGICAgICUvbIKDA/2013/07/12/update-all-of-debris-wreckage-from-asiana-fusela

RELIGION HISTORY UNTOLD UNTIL NOW! CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

RELIGION HISTORY UNTOLD UNTIL NOW! 

CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH?

How can MEN be caring, compassionate, and nurturing and kind leaders?

WHEN MAJORITY of MEN SHOW ONLY TO BE SELFISH, GREEDY, POWER HUNGRY, VENGEFUL, JEALOUSLY OF OTHERS and EASILY  THREATEN and DRIVEN BY LUST AND MONEY???

TOO ME that makes no sense.... Haven't you that modern religion is missing something???

And Why where the MEN Leaders so threaten by women in there church, that OLD MEN Leaders CHOOSE What doctrines that where allowed in the BIBLE? 

AND IT NO SECRET that in the Witch HUNTS MEN where getting RID of THOSE who practice the OLD RELIGION.. THIS is shown by how the Catholics merged the OLD Religion holidays, to today modern HOLIDAYS. Including the Saints.  GO FIGURE A COVER UP??/

THE POWER of History that no wants anyone to knows??? IF the CHURCH was SO Divine??? THEN WHY Does THE PRIEST DO Corruptions and HURT CHILDREN? 

I BELIEVE WE NEED TO WAKE Up PEOPLE! DON'T JUST BELIEVE THE TRUTHS I SHOW YOU! I WANT TO DISCOVER THE REAL TRUTH YOURSELF!

DO BELIEVE THERE SOMETHING MORE????

I PRESENT ONLY A PIECE of the STORY,

YOU DECIDE WHAT TO BELIEVE

Origins of Druidry, Wicca, OTO, Thelema, AMORC, Golden Dawn, Theosophical, FREE MASION 

THE UNTOLD STORY OF OUR HISTORY!

I believe there are in fact untold stories of history, I believe there always two sides of the story. And why cant WE hear the story of the LOOSING SIDE of History, I remember being in the 10th grade and what my professor said to me in history class stuck with me to this at Adulthood, "Those that win the war get to write there version of truth in history." "The truth of history is lied by the victor and nothing more." "And that is what we teach!" I then rose my hand, And said "well can we also learn the other side tale?" and he look and said "I don't think others want to learn such matters, Reveles" too my shock the class spoke up and said "YES,WE DO!" "Maybe if know both sides it wouldn't make history so BORING" AND we all agreed and majority ruled and we learn both sides...
Which brings me to this video I've always known there was something more to the Witch hunts and that I had something do with not letting women be in the position of power. But even then there was allot secrets hiding around it....
So I've been Researching for years, And I found something.... I don't Agree with the this video saying that the Divine ONE'S ONLY have RED HAIR, THAT is BULLSHIT!
And say description is only of red hair and blue color eyes is WRONG!
IT's True the Divine ONE's had to and are in hiding until this every day. AND NOW the only way to tell the difference of the Divine ONE's is the BONE Structure, And CARRIE Negative type of blood.

Yet, this video does carry ALLOT of HIDDEN TRUTHS!
SO YOU DECIDE WHAT THOSE TRUTHS ARE.....

Asian Citizen and Children injured 2 dead due to Plane Crash in San Francisco, CA airport.

2 are DEAD out of 349 passagers, my heart goes out for those. California's 1st emergency aid response acted quickly and efficiently caring to all the Severely Critical injured passagers, reducing the death toll extremely, and showed that California emergency 1st response team was indeed and well prepare in training, that where able help the injured.

Amoung the paassagers where At least 181 people have been transported to area hospitals, 49 with serious injuries.

San Francisco General said they have received 52 patients, including at least 11 children. Five of those patients were reported in critical condition Saturday evening, including one child.

4 other adults and one child who arrived in critical condition have since been upgraded to serious. It was not immediately clear the ages of the children.

Asiana Airlines issued a statement that listed the number of passengers and their nationalities: 77 Korean citizens, 141 Chinese citizens, 61 U.S. citizens and 1 Japanese citizen.

The passengers from China included a teacher and 34 high school students.

The FBI said that, at this point in time, there is no indication of terrorism involved in the incident.

And through out the whole day President Obama is no where to be found it was unitl a tweet lol, now CBS NEWs just did a report only a hour a ago and they have no clue what is fully going on,

but claim to say Obama sends his gratitude to the WHO EVER responded there FIRST... (what a laugh and a FUCK YOU Obama)

Eyewitness of the footage

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592529/plane-crash-at-san-francisco-airport-2-dead/ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592529/plane-crash-at-san-francisco-airport-2-dead/

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I HAVE A LINK TO Show U AND ITS VERY SAD. TWO GIRLS ARE DEAD ONE only 16 and the other 17  old students. as well there was a pilot that was in training will passagers where on board. this a very sad thing.

I shall post the report if this thing allows me. if not email me at

aye.sarita85@gmail.com

and ill send you my personal link.

So you can read the entire report your self complete details!

Report

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Boeing 777 SF Crash

News etc. digested by Alister William Macintyre

What we have found out so far about July 2013 plane crash at San Francisco.

Last updated 2013 July 09

Version 0.7

Table of Contents:

Summary Introduction (2013 Jul 09).................................................................................. 2

307 Souls aboard AAR214 (2013 Jul 09) ................................................................... 3

Similar Crash 2009 Feb Europe (2013 Jul 08)............................................................ 4

Similar Crash 1968 SFO (2013 Jul 09)....................................................................... 4

Survivors & Hospitals (2013 Jul 09) ! R ........................................................................ 5

People counts (2013 Jul 08) ........................................................................................ 6

Sunday Jul-7 hospital updates (2013 Jul 08) .............................................................. 7

Plane Too Low and Too Slow (2013 Jul 08) .................................................................. 7

Known Now (2013 Jul 09).......................................................................................... 8

Claims as yet Unproven (2013 Jul 08)........................................................................ 8

Pure Speculation (2013 Jul 09) ................................................................................... 9

Debris (2013 Jul 09).................................................................................................. 10

Crash Time Line Start (2013 Jul 08)............................................................................. 11

Landing Problems (2013 July 09)............................................................................. 11

Problem got much worse (2013 Jul 09) .................................................................... 12

Fuselage slide ends (2013 Jul 09) ............................................................................. 13

Dead Kids missed (2013 Jul 08) ............................................................................... 15

Airport closed (2013 Jul 09) ..................................................................................... 15

Sun July-7 (2013 Jul 08) ........................................................................................... 17

Mon July-8 (2013 Jul 09).......................................................................................... 18

Tues July-9 (2013 Jul 09) ......................................................................................... 18

Incident Witness Tales (2013 Jul 08)............................................................................ 19

Air Professional Sources (2013 Jul 07) R..................................................................... 20

Resolving Conflicting Stories (2013 Jul 09) #.......................................................... 20

Air Incident sites (2013 Jul 09) # R .......................................................................... 21

Wiki (2013 Jul 08) R................................................................................................. 22

Raw Data (2013 Jul 07) ............................................................................................ 22

FAA = Federal Aviation Administration (2013 Jul 09)............................................ 23

NTSB = National Transportation Safety Board (2013 Jul 09) R.............................. 23

Gov agencies of SF = San Francisco (2013 Jul 09) R .............................................. 24

Gov of China SF Consulate info (2013 Jul 09) R..................................................... 25

Gov of S Korea SF Consulate info (2013 Jul 09) ..................................................... 25

Government other source sites (2013 Jul 09) ........................................................... 25

News media portals (2013 Jul 09) R............................................................................. 25

News media links (2013 Jul 08).................................................................................... 26

San Francisco Bay Area News (2013 Jul 09) R........................................................ 27

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Worldwide news coverage (2013 Jul 08).................................................................. 27

San Francisco Media sources (2013 Jul 07) ..................................................................... 28

SF Internet news sites (2013 Jul 07) ............................................................................. 28

SF Newspapers (2013 Jul 07) ....................................................................................... 28

SF TV & Radio (2013 Jul 07)....................................................................................... 29

Key Tags for searches (2013 Jul 09)................................................................................. 29

Revision History (2013 Jul 09) ......................................................................................... 30

Summary Introduction (2013 Jul 09)

A Boeing 777-200-ER crash landed in clear weather at San Francisco Airport,1 runway

28L. It was Asiana Airlines flight AAR-214 (Aircraft Registration HL7742) from Seoul-

Incheon South Korea,2 after a 10 hour 23 minute flight, having left 5.04 pm (Korea time)3

about ½ hour later than its 4.15 scheduled departure. Asiana Air is S Korea’s # 2 airline

in size. Korea Air being # 1. The flight had started in Shanghai, stopped at Seoul, then

continued on to San Francisco,4 by a slightly different flight path, than originally

planned.5 This is the first major US plane crash in a dozen years.6

The plane evidently had multiple problems in the landing approach, which the talking

heads on mainstream news media totally neglected to inform the public about, ignoring

technical data available to everyone, to help figure out what really happened.7 The whole

business about the plane being too slow too low was near the end of a string of problems,

far from the whole story. Furthermore, the data shows that this is a common problem at

SFO airport. Many statements of alleged fact have been made, which were later

contradicted by other pilots using SFO airport, regarding what equipment was or was not

working at the airport.

After the tail came off, some people sitting in the back fell out of the plane. It is a

miracle so few got killed. One of the now dead teenage girls may have been alive when

she fell out of the back of the plane, then run-over by rescue vehicle(s).8 All of the

plane’s crew survived, including the stewardesses sitting in the back of the plane, where

the tail fell off, and then people sitting in the back fell out, while the plane was still

moving at high speed. There were hundreds of survivors.9

1 http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=SFO

2 http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=ICN

3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAR214

4 http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20130706-0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/the-final-approach-of-flight-214/2013/07/07/3c0943f2-e6af-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

5 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/asian-airlines-crash-san-francisco-airportboeing-777/2496275/

6 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/the-final-approach-of-flight-214/2013/07/07/3c0943f2-e6af-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

7 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

8 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

9 http://sfbay.ca/2013/07/06/boeing-777-crash-lands-at-sfo/

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As the Asiana Boeing 777 plane careened along the ground, until it came to a halt, it

appears the tail, engines, and landing gear got separated from the fuselage, leaving a

debris field along the whole length of the runway.

NTSB seeks video footage and photographs from eyewitnesses, which can be uploaded

on its website.10 See NTSB chapter.11

Initial news media stories were chaotic. There were several press conferences.12 The

news media has lots of images of the wreckage, and smoke.13

The FBI says they have no indication (yet) of any terrorist act.

See Revision History, at end, for explanation of symbols in Chapter Headings.

307 Souls aboard AAR214 (2013 Jul 09)

People who know Korean and English were needed, to help translate at the hospitals, and

other places. I suspect they also needed translators for other languages, since the people

on board included:14

 141 Chinese citizens,

 77 Korean citizen passengers and 14 of the 16 crew,

 61-64 US citizens,

 3 Canadians,

 3 Indians,

 1 Japanese citizen,

 1 French,

 2 Thailand flight attendants,

 1 Vietnamese,

 3 others.

10 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update-20130707,0,7134295.story

11 http://www.ntsb.gov/

12 http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/sf-airport-crash-emergency-care-chief-talks-about/v52Ks/

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/sf-airport-crash-officials-update-dead-missing-and/v52Kr/

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/live

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/1st-responders-describe-harrowing-scene-at-sfo-plane-crash/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/flight-simulator-shows-sfo-landing-system-not-likely-factorin-

crash/

First responder press conferences: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

13 http://www.ktvu.com/gallery/news/local/images-boeing-777-crashes-san-francisco-internatio/gCBt5/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqjCU5ZajY

14 http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAR214

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/07/08/asiana-attendant-describes-dramaticevacuation/

Sq8g7ora8J7kjBzTvSRS3M/story.html

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/09/salvation-army-providing-translation-services-for-asianacrash-

victims-families/

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Similar Crash 2009 Feb Europe (2013 Jul 08)

This crash seems to have a lot in common with Feb 2009 Boeing 737-800 crash of

Turkish Airlines in the Netherlands.15 In both cases:

o The crash was during a landing at an airport.

o A trainee pilot was at the controls. He was experienced in similar aircraft, but had

only 43 hours in the Boeing 777, and had never before landed at San Francisco.

o The landing path was not stabilized with the correct path.

o In both flights, the initial approach was high and fast, so efforts were taken to

slow the plane down, but it got slowed down too much. The crew noticed this,

were unable to fix the flight path in time.

o In the case of the latest crash, for most of the approach the Boeing 777

was too high and too fast, so action was taken to try to make correction,

but this over-shot the intended glide path, ending up too slow under it, too

low to fix the problem in time. We do not yet know why the approach

path was wrong, needed correction, did not get corrected properly, or how

common is this scenario

o In the case of the Turkish Airlines crash, there was a mechanical error

causing false info to the cockpit crew, and the automatic controls

conflicted with what the pilot was trying to do, which may have been

caused by false info about how high the plane was above the runway.

o Both planes came down short of the start of the runway.

Boeing 777 has a reputation of being a very safe plane, helping passengers evacuate

rapidly in an emergency, demonstrated in other crashes.16

Similar Crash 1968 SFO (2013 Jul 09)

There have been 12 commercial airline crashes at San Francisco International Airport

since it opened in 1927. One with some similarities to the Asiana 214 crash, is the Nov

22, 1968 crash of a Japan Airlines DC-8.17

 In both cases, the plane hit the ground before the beginning of the runway.

 The Japan 1968 crash actually ended up in 10 feet of water short of the runway.

The exits were above the water, and all 107 people in that plane survived.

 The Japan pilot was making an instrument landing at SFO, which he had never

before done with a DC-8 at SFO.

 The Asiana pilot was making a visual landing at SFO, which he had never before

done with a Boeing 777 at SFO.

15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_1951

16 http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_23611688/boeing-777-has-sterling-reputationamong-

pilots

17 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/1968-crash-at-sfo-similar-to-asiana-flight-214-tragedy/

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Survivors & Hospitals (2013 Jul 09) ! R

Thru July 11, special Hotel accommodations are available at special rates and

inventory to SFO passengers affected by the Asiana Airlines tragedy, such as

those whose flights got delayed, and families of the victims.18

9+ Hospitals got the injured, including:

 Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley

 Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

 Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

 St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco

 San Francisco General

 Stanford University Hospital

Minor harmed were treated and released. People with bad problems were admitted into

the hospitals for longer stays.

Injuries included:19

 Abrasions

 Burns

 Cuts

 Fractures

 Head trauma

 Internal injuries

 Pains

 Paralysis

 Road rash, which comes from being dragged

 Smoke Inhalation

 Spinal injuries, due to plane gyrations, when wearing ordinary seat belts, not the

shoulder harness kind now mandated in automobiles20

Many passengers got off Ok, via inflatable emergency exit chute(s). Helicopter cameras

overhead showed them queuing up, to get on shuttle buses away from the scene. But

there was a medical triage area, for passengers needing treatment for burns.

18 http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/orphan/announcement/hotel.html

19 http://wqad.com/2013/07/07/flight-data-recorders-recovered-from-asiana-crash/

20 This is consistent with what I found several years ago, when I studied school bus crashes. Federal crash

tests using dummies in seats with different kinds of safety belts found that the best protection was shoulder

harness, and worst was ordinary seat belt with chairs so close to each other that children torso went

forwards in crash, hit seat back in front of them, forcing their head back, with severe damage to neck. In

most states of the USA, state government regulations mandate this most dangerous to children arrangement for the children. This is because safety laws are not written by safety engineers, but by politicians.

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People counts (2013 Jul 08)

People count was updated multiple times on the day of the crash, as info came from

different first responder organizations, hospitals, media rumor mills, as the passengers got

scattered to 9+ different hospitals, different ways of getting there.

•  307 people aboard? (290 paid passengers, 1 infant, crew members) (19 business
• class, 272 travel class)
•  San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said 190 of those on the plane had
• been able to walk to an evacuation center with little or no assistance.
•  Survivors exit allegedly delayed because some passengers tried to bring out their
• luggage
•  2 people dead
•  40 to 49+ in critical condition.
• o 10 of them - eight adults and two children - at San Francisco General.
• o 5 of the 10 were later upgraded to serious condition
•  48+ people were immediately taken to area hospitals from the crash site, with
• walking survivors in shuttle buses to the airport terminal, from where another 82+
• transported for medical care. (48+82=130 or 181 according to some stories).
• Some hospitals setup tents outside to figure out which patients should be priority
• into what kind of care.
•  Hospitals called for any Korean-speaking staffers to come to work and help
• translate.
•  Some injured but not bad enough to go to hospitals.
•  Injuries = many burns, fractures and internal injuries.
•  123+ survived without any injuries.
•  60+ people were yet accounted for, some of whom may be people who got off the
• plane, wandered off, before first responders got the scene under control, but that
• count soon went down to 1+, then none. The 60+ was just a miscount, because 1st
• responders first job was to get people to safety, and they were using several
• staging areas, not all of which got added up rapidly.

In the first few days after the crash, #s of serious harm will evolve as surviving

passengers get checked out,21 investigators explore the wreckage, manifest is verified,

news media back pedals on oops bad info.

While most of us think it was a miracle so many survived, this was largely thanks to

improvements in aircraft technology, good training for the people involved in directing

the evacuation and rescue. People should not get lulled by such miracles, to ignore the

very training essential for future survival.22

21 http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-killed-40-badly-hurt-in-SFO-plane-crash-4650259.php

http://www.marinij.com/ci_23610508/faa-asiana-airlines-flight-crashes-while-landing-at

22 http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/08/asiana-airlines-flight-214-editorialsdebates/2500657/

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Sunday Jul-7 hospital updates (2013 Jul 08)

Here are updates from some of the hospitals, the day after the crash

.

23 Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford,

 7 patients treated, and now listed in good condition.

San Francisco General Hospital,

 53 patients have been treated

 34 have been discharged

 19 remained hospitalized,

 6 of them, including one minor girl, were in critical condition.

Stanford Hospital

 55 patients were treated from the Asiana crash

 44 released

 11 admitted,

 2 of them listed in critical condition at noon Sunday.

Plane Too Low and Too Slow (2013 Jul 08)

My figures for supposed landing patterns are mainly from news media, which may be

confusing what the plane should have been doing with what it actually did. See the

Flying Professor for detailed technical explanations.

24. Basically, the plane’s initial glide path was too fast and too high, so the pilot tried to

correct, but instead, the plane slowed precipitously, and became too slow, too low to

properly compensate.

25 Also see time line for more specifics.

Many witnesses claim the plane was too low, hitting the ground before the start of the

runway, its tail hit the sea wall, which is approx 1,000 feet before start of the runway.

A plane is supposed to be 150 feet up when it passes over the sea wall, and 50 feet up

when it gets to the start of the runway.

It is supposed to be traveling at 157 mph = 250kph = 145 knots per hour at this point.

Some reports said that it was traveling much slower than that, and the black boxes have

confirmed that observation.

26 Traveling too slowly could contribute to being too low.

Planes typically land at the target speed, or a little faster.

23 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update-20130707,0,7134295.story?page=2

24 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

25 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

26 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

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Known Now (2013 Jul 09)

 The pilots were interviewed July-8 by NTSB and their Korean counterparts, but

what they said has not yet been revealed to the general public, except for this

quote, the pilot said: “I (expletive) messed up.”27

 NTSB confirmed that part of the so-called glide path system that assists pilots

with instrument based landings had been out of commission since June 1. The

glide slope – which “can give you a constant approach to the airport on an

approach down” has been sidelined until Aug. 22 because of runway construction,

and all pilots had been notified.28

o Not yet addressed is the geeky language of notification system, and

whether native language of pilots being other than English played a role.

Here is that official notification:29

o "SFO 06/005 SFO NAV ILS RWY 28L GP OTS WEF 1306011400-

1308222359 CREATED: 01 Jun 2013 13:40:00 SOURCE: KOAKYFYX"

o Professional pilots should know the above means: SFO airport ILS glide

path is OTS WEF -- "out of service with effect from" June 01, 2013.

 NTSB says another part of that system – known as a localizer – that lines up an

aircraft horizontally around the runway’s center line, was working correctly, a test

flight revealed. So allegedly were precision approach indicator lights, which were

then “significantly damaged” during the crash.30 NTSB said the aircraft may have

also had GPS-based technology that offers vertical guidance to pilots. We do not

yet know where the NTSB got that info. It seems that there are two versions of

reality … what the airport says, and what many pilots say.

Claims as yet Unproven (2013 Jul 08)

Remember Miracle on the Hudson, after a bird strike. This was Miracle of the Boeing,

where so many escaped such a serious crash. Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, made famous

by the Miracle on the Hudson, says that perhaps the design of the runways construction

should be reviewed.31

After a disaster, some organizations can be lacking a plan how to deal with it, leading to

foot in mouth statements that can come back later to haunt the organization. Asiana

airlines may be in this boat.32

27 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/1968-crash-at-sfo-similar-to-asiana-flight-214-tragedy/

28 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-of-crashed-plane-had-43-hours-experience-flyingboeing-777-asiana-says-20130707,0,7467256.story

29 http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/professional-pilots-on-the-san-franciscocrash/277563/

30 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-of-crashed-plane-had-43-hours-experience-flyingboeing-777-asiana-says-20130707,0,7467256.story

31 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592541/capt-chesley-sullenberger-s.f-airport-constructionpossible-factor-in-crash/

32 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23222269

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The airline's president, Yoon Young-doo, defended the pilots of the plane as "skilled"

veterans, saying three had logged more than 10,000 hours each of flight time, while the

fourth had put in almost that much time. All four pilots are South Koreans.33

However, another spokesperson was quoted as saying pilot Lee Gang-guk or Lee Kangkuk,

or Kang Kook Lee,34 skills were not with that particular aircraft.35 He had a total of

43 hours flying the Boeing 777,36 and this was the first time he had ever tried to land that

kind of aircraft at that particular airport.37

In my opinion, the weather conditions were the best you could have for learning how to

land that kind of plane at that kind of airport. However, such training flights should be

preceded by a simulator, and perhaps the airliner should budget enough money to do such

training without using a plane load of passengers.

Training is like Testing. We expect that occasionally something will go wrong. This was

very expensive on-the-job training, which could lead to new government rules.38

Pure Speculation (2013 Jul 09)

For the first few days after the crash, it was pure speculation and conjecture whether in

fact the plane was too low or too slow, if that is what happened, and if so, why. That’s

because people do not yet have a complete picture of the data. Different witnesses were

of parts of the big picture, many of them in a state of shock and without the technical

language to properly describe what they saw, heard, felt.

 Perhaps the plane was in trouble before the landing.

 Perhaps there was not enough fuel left to give the engine the power needed for a

proper landing.

 Perhaps there was trouble with the computer … that kind of plane has allegedly

had past troubles with auto pilot.

 Perhaps there was some other mechanical or electrical trouble … that kind of

plane has allegedly had past troubles with ice crystals clogging the fuel line.

 Perhaps there was a bird strike.

 Perhaps there was a drone strike.

 Perhaps climate change impacted water temperature above the water, and

associated shifting winds, where the plane flew over messing up the glide path of

final approach.

33 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592558/possible-clues-emerge-in-asiana-airlines-flight-214-crash/

34 Spelling of pilot name varies with different news media.

35 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

36 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-of-crashed-plane-had-43-hours-experience-flyingboeing-777-asiana-says-20130707,0,7467256.story

37 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

38 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-of-crashed-plane-had-43-hours-experience-flyingboeing-777-asiana-says-20130707,0,7467256.story

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 Perhaps the pilot tried to land on the ground which was in front of the start of the

runway.

 Because of the good weather, and malfunctioning airport equipment,39 the airport

was on visual manual landing, where pilots had been notified in advance that

there was a lack of instrumentation.40 However, pilots more often use instrument

landings than manual landings, so they can be overly dependent on instruments,

and may have been overly tired after the long flight.

 Pilot error used to be the automatic blame, before we had good instrumentation

like black boxes. See comments on the Flying Professor’s physics, where

someone speculates that Asian airlines are likely to have pilots with God

syndrome, like some doctors think their skills are better than the rules.41

 There’s how crew interact, which can vary with nation, culture, and airline.42

 There’s also the impact on human brain when expected to do complex work at a

time when your body is normally asleep.43 Remember, the pilots were from the

other side of the world. They tried to land at a time which was the equivalent of

their middle of the night.

 Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general for the U.S. Dept of Transportation

(DOT), said video and other data related to the crash suggest the crew "lost

situational awareness" while approaching the airport.44

Debris (2013 Jul 09)

The tail's lower portion was later found in the rocks at the seawall and "a significant piece

of the tail" was in the water, NTSB reported. Additional aircraft parts were visible at low

tide.45

There’s lots of wreckage along the runway,46 with the fuselage at the end, with wings still

attached.

Pieces of the tail and wheels are just short of the start of the runway.

Next are stabilizers at the start of the runway.

Next is what is left of the landing gear.

39 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-equipment-out-of-service-when-plane-crash-at-sf-airport-20130707,0,6437614.story

40 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592558/possible-clues-emerge-in-asiana-airlines-flight-214-crash/

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-equipment-out-of-service-when-plane-crash-at-sf-airport-20130707,0,6437614.story

41 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

42 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/09/cockpit-culture-may-have-played-role-in-asiana-crash/

43 http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/08/asiana-airlines-flight-214-san-francisco-editorialsdebates/2500689/

44 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

45 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

46 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/asian-airlines-crash-san-francisco-airportboeing-777/2496275/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/06/us/where-asiana-flight-214-came-to-rest.html?smid=fbnytimes&WT.z_sma=US_WAF_20130706&_r=1&

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Crash Time Line Start (2013 Jul 08)

When viewing the times things happened, remember that the USA has several time

zones, which are (moving East to West):47

 East Coast Time Zone, shared by Caribbean Islands

 Central Time Zone

 Mountain Time Zone

 Pacific Coast Time Zone

 Alaska Time Zone

 Hawaii Time Zone

All of Korea is on one Korean Time Zone. San Francisco time + 16 hours = Seoul Korea

time.48 Seoul time – 1 hour = Shanghai China time.

Partial time line, for the AAR214 crash, from multiple sources,49 using Pacific Time:

Two days before the crash (July-4), the same flight (214) appears to do another nonstabilized

approach with a rapid decent to 800. Arriving high and fast on this approach

appears common.50

The day before the crash (July-5), the same flight (214) did a go around on the same

approach.51 I would like to know why, and how often flights need to do so.

32 minutes before the crash, SFO conditions were near perfect conditions: good visibility

with a light 6 knot crosswind, with variable direction.52

There’s a lot of speculation what instruments were working at SFO before the crash.

Many people are quoted saying this and that working before the crash, which broke that

stuff. Pilots, who often land at SFO, are saying that this or that is often malfunctioning

when they land.53 I hope NTSB interviews other pilots who use SFO, and we find out if

it is standard practice for pilots to report what is malfunctioning, that the FAA never gave

them any advance warning was in that condition.

Landing Problems (2013 July 09)

Witnesses, quoted by the news media, claimed the plane was in a steeper than usual

descent. Initial data available to the NTSB did not confirm that picture. Steve of the

Flying Professor used radar data from FlightAware, to compare the plane which crashed,

47 http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.php

http://www.timeanddate.com/wordclock/?n=235

48 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/difference.html?p1=235

49 http://storify.com/AviationSafety/asiana-flight-214-accident-at-san-francisco-sfo

50 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

51 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

52 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

53 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

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with UAL852, another long distance 777 which landed successfully only 10 minutes

before AAR214. 54 Both planes should have followed a similar path, depending on their

weight and other details not yet known to analysts. Steve’s graph has UAL852 is in

black, and AAR214 is in red.

We can see that AAR214 is 500 feet or so above the glide slope until about 4 nautical

miles (nm) out. At 3 nm, it is about 50% higher than it should be. It looks like there was

an effort to correct this, which over-shot the goal. The graph for ground speed shows a

worse situation. However, note in the comments after Steve’s analysis, that the radar

data available to him was not granular enough to draw good conclusions. 55 NTSB will

have access to better data.

Until about 30 seconds before the crash, according to the Flying Professor analysis, the

AAR214 was too high and fast. As the plane descended, according to NTSB analysis of

the cockpit voice and data recorders, everything was normal until very close to landing,

according to most everyone except the Flying Professor. During final approach, the data

indicates that the throttles were at idle and airspeed slowed below the target airspeed.56

This was after flying a chunk of time too high and too fast.

However, the Flying Professor’s data from Flight Aware, is in 100 foot increments. FAA

ATC radar data, available to NTSB has more detail. So far, I have not seen anything

directly from NTSB contradicting the Flying Professor’s analysis. I have seen multiple

news media stories which drop technical details, like altitude of specific conditions,

leading to a misleading picture. See graph with Flying Professor’s analysis in black, and

NTSB data in red.57

Problem got much worse (2013 Jul 09)

Since I do not have an exact time, to the second, for impact, or crash, I can’t merge

 Time stamps of radio communications between plane and airport and ATC;

 X seconds before impact from NTSB black box analysis,

 Points on radar graph analysis via the Flying Professor.

I expect in time, more info will come out, to help make that practical.

16 seconds before impact, the Boeing 777 was traveling at about 118 knots (136 mph) at

an altitude of about 200 feet; while the recommended speed upon approach to the runway

threshold is 137 knots (157 mph), NTSB Deborah Hersman told reporters, within a

54 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

55 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

56 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update20130707,0,7134295.story

57 http://flyingprofessors.net/flight-214-and-the-new-york-times-data-analysis-blunder/

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couple days after the crash, once the voice and data recorders had been recovered and

studied by NTSB lab for a day.58

7 seconds before the crash, according to the cockpit voice and data recorders, pilots

recognized the need to increase speed.59

4 seconds before the crash, according to cockpit voice and data recorders, the aircraft's

stick shaker — a piece of safety equipment that warns pilots of an impending stall —

went off. The normal response to a stall warning is to boost speed and NTSB said the

throttles were fired and the engines appeared to respond normally.60

11:21:12 am Sat July-6: Flight 214 cleared to land runway 28 Left

At 1.5 seconds before impact, according to cockpit voice and data recorders, there was a

call from the crew to abort the landing.61

11:22:27: Flight 214 calls ATC

11:22:30: Tower says, “214 Heavy, Emergency Vehicles are responding”

11:22:37: Flight 214 calls again. Can’t make out what is said.

11:23:10: Flight 214 calls again. Can’t make out what is said.

11:23:25: ATC says, “Emergency vehicles are responding. We have everyone on their

way.”

The Boeing 777 was traveling at approximately 106 knots (122 mph) upon impact; the

recommended speed upon approach to the runway threshold is 137 knots (157 mph),

NTSB Deborah Hersman told reporters, within a couple days after the crash, once the

voice and data recorders had been recovered and studied by NTSB lab for a day.62

11.26 am is when the FAA initially said the crash occurred.

Fuselage slide ends (2013 Jul 09)

Cabin manager Lee Yoon-hye said that during the evacuation, two inflatable slides that

were supposed to inflate toward the outside instead inflated toward the inside of the

plane, hurting two Asiana flight attendants. Pilots came to rescue the flight attendants but

58 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

59 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

60 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

61 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

62 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/us/asiana-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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even after getting injured, she said that the crew did not leave the plane until after the

passengers evacuated. She said she was the last one to go.63

11:27:02: A United Airlines pilot calls ATC, “We see people (at our vicinity) that need

immediate attention. They are alive and they are walking around.” "Think you said

people are just walking outside the airplane right now?" the controller replied. "Yes,"

answered the pilot of United Flight 885, which had been waiting to take off, whose crew

saw the first survivors exiting the crashed plane.64 "Some people, it looks like, are

struggling" said the United Airlines pilot.

Some exited via the emergency chutes. Some exited thru the gaping hole where the tail

used to be.

Asiana Airlines flight attendants punctured an emergency chute that inflated inside the

damaged plane and trapped people beneath. They doused fires while guiding — and

sometimes carrying— passengers to exits. That they coolly carried out valiant tasks

while wearing pencil skirts, high-heeled pumps, buttoned blazers and scarves — and

despite their own injuries — impressed high-ranking members of U.S. flight crew

unions.65

One of the first rescuer to get into the plane, was from a police car which saw the crash

developing, flagged down an ambulance to follow them, then without any special

protective gear, one of the police officers ran in the gash in the rear where the tail used to

be, doing what he could to rescue injured people who could not get out on their own.66

11.27: a voice from the airport control tower crackled through airport fire station radio:

"Alert 3, Alert 3, plane crash, plane crash." 1st responders got to the crash site, boarded

the aircraft, rescued survivors who were too badly injured, or trapped, to get out on their

own.67

225 1st responders arrived on the scene within minutes of the crash. San Francisco’s Fire

Chief, Hayes-White said Saturday that when crews arrived, “some of the passengers

(were) coming out of the water. But the plane was certainly not in the water.”68

Hopefully later interviews with those passengers will help clarify how they got there, like

maybe they were seated in the tail section which came off very early.

63 http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

64 http://www.washingtonguardian.com/official-probes-if-rescuers-ran-over-crash-victim-0

65 http://nbcnews.to/14Z4Ez4

66 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/hero-sfpd-officer-says-he-was-just-doing-my-job-rescuingelderly-

man-from-plane-crash/

67 http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-rescuers-saved-SF-plane-crash-victims-4652751.php

68 http://wqad.com/2013/07/07/flight-data-recorders-recovered-from-asiana-crash/

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It sounds like everyone, who could walk, got off the plane in 2-3 minutes, which sounds

awful fast. Many had to be carried away in stretchers.

Dead Kids missed (2013 Jul 08)

Of the 141 Chinese citizens aboard the Asiana flight, 70 were students or teachers bound

for U.S. summer camps.

Kevin Cheng, of KNC Holidays Transportation based in San Francisco, later said that he

had been waiting at the arrival gates of San Francisco International Airport to pick up 34

students and a teacher from Jiangshan Middle School in China's Zhejiang province. His

job was to drive them to a Marriott hotel in San Jose, where a tour bus was to pick them

up the following day and drive them to the group's final destination at the West Valley

Christian School, in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.69

Moments after the crash, the teacher called Kevin Cheng on a cell phone to say that she

and most of the students had escaped the burning plane. The group was separated when

they got out, and she was still trying to locate three of her students. He jotted the three

names down on a piece of scrap paper, and ran through crowds of reporters and worried

onlookers, and asked the airport to broadcast the three names. Two of the names that he

wrote down were Wang Lin Jia and Ye Meng Yuan, which were later confirmed as the

two passengers who died in the crash.70

He had to call the hotel and rearrange all the transportation. He was bombarded with

calls from China, as people back home sought more info.

Firefighters and emergency crews from San Francisco, Redwood City, San Mateo went to

assist at the airport. It was declared a 3 alarm fire.

Medical personnel rushed to the major hospitals, to be ready, in case the victim volume

was like the Boston Marathon bombing. The Dept of Public health sent grief counselors

to the airport, and hospitals. American Airlines sent personnel to the hospitals to help

out. Various NGOs sent interpreters to the hospitals, and airport.

Airport closed (2013 Jul 09)

The airport was completely closed for several hours, after the crash. Then after maybe 5

hours or so, 2 of the 4 runways got re-opened. Although the airport made arrangements

to accommodate the disrupted travelers,71 this effort was non-obvious to many of them.72

69 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/08/china-suspects-school-trips-after-planecrash/

2498183/

70 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-plane-crash-driver20130707,0,7248130.story

71 See SFO Airport links within chapter on San Francisco government agencies.

72 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/09/sfo-delays-cancellations-during-asiana-crash-investigation/

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1:10 pm, or earlier, the airport is officially closed. At about the same time ½ a dozen

buses were used to transport passengers from the crash scene to the airport terminal. 191

survivors walked onto those buses.

60+ flights destined for SFO diverted to other airports – most to Sacramento, Oakland,

San Jose, LAX. Some, further away at the time, diverted to Las Vegas, Reno, Phoenix,

Denver, Salt Lake City, and Seattle.

The sudden cancelation of flights, and moving some to other airports in the area, without

any help to travelers not involved in the crash, has some of them annoyed at the lack of

customer service. They should be happy the plane did not crash into the terminal and kill

them. Disasters happen. Emergency services go first to the people with greatest need.

Just after 3 pm, San Francisco International had reopened two runways for air traffic.

SFO has a total of 4 runways.

3.30 pm, it is now widely believed that on landing, the plane hit the rocks located where

the edge of the runway meets the sea.

73 The count is now:

2 dead

290 injured

4.40 pm, 60+ passengers, who arrived on the crashed airline, are still unaccounted for.

5 pm, the first NTSB person arrived, and became site commander.

5.50 pm, officials now know that there were 307 people aboard, of whom 306 have been

accounted for. The count is now:

2 dead

192 injured passengers and crew members receiving treatment at Bay Area hospitals,

with 49 of these patients in serious condition, 132 got moderate to minor injuries.

123 not injured

8 pm, the revised count is now:

2 dead.

all 307 people aboard have been accounted for.

182 have been taken to hospitals, 49 of them serious.

123 were unscathed, allowed to leave, to hotels & families.

Midnite, the main NTSB team arrived.

Under US rules, surviving plane crew from an accident, should speak with NTSB

investigators before anyone else, but some have spoken with first responders, medical

personnel, and their airline.

73 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-san-francisco-airport-crash-hit-seawall-

20130706,0,1836071.story

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The official investigation will take months to be sure what caused the crash, but many

people are already speculating. The CEO of the airline has ruled out anything wrong

with the aircraft, before there has been any inspection of the airplane’s maintenance

records, or analysis from black boxes.74

Sun July-7 (2013 Jul 08)

About 1 p.m. Sunday, a third runway, 28R, reopened, out of the four at SFO.75

Chinese news media says the 2 dead were 16+17 year old Chinese school girls,76 Ye

Mengyuan and Wang Linjia. They had been seated in the back of the plane, near the tail

which came off.

San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said he was investigating whether one of

the two teenage passengers killed actually survived the crash but was run over by a

rescue vehicle rushing to aid victims fleeing the burning aircraft.77

The black boxes have been found, and have gone to NTSB lab in Washington DC.78

Very soon NTSB had preliminary info, which I have incorporated into my notes.

Early Sunday, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport identified the

two pilots flying the jetliner at the time of the crash as Lee Jeong Min and Lee Gang Guk.

The ministry said that four pilots were on board and rotated in two-person shifts during

the 10-hour flight from Seoul.79

The pilot operating the aircraft was a veteran who had been flying for Asiana since 1996,

the airline said.

Hospital officials said Sunday afternoon that the crash had left at least two people

paralyzed with spinal injuries. Eight people remained in critical condition.80 I am not

sure if this is overall, or just at one of the 9+ hospitals.

74 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/asian-airlines-crash-san-francisco-airportboeing-

777/2496275/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23214513

75 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update-

20130707,0,7134295.story?page=2

76 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57592564/asiana-airlines-flight-214-crash-victims-were-16-

year-old-chinese-schoolgirls/

77 http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

78 http://wqad.com/2013/07/07/flight-data-recorders-recovered-from-asiana-crash/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/07/us/plane-crash-main/

79 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/asian-airlines-crash-san-francisco-airportboeing-

777/2496275/

80 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update-

20130707,0,7134295.story?page=2

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Mon July-8 (2013 Jul 09)

The South Korea government announced Monday that officials will inspect engines and

landing equipment on all Boeing 777 planes owned by Asiana and Korean Air, the

national carrier.81

The city, from which Chinese school children had left to go to summer camp in the USA,

has suspended such travel.82 Of the 141 Chinese citizens aboard the Asiana flight, 70

were students or teachers bound for U.S. summer camps.

As is common practice, the trip was advertised through the school but arranged by a third

party, in this case the Boyue International Exchange consultancy, based in Zhenjiang in

neighboring Jiangsu province. Its leader, Yu Guoping, currently in the United States to

deal with the accident, confirmed the students had insurance, the Qianjiang Evening

News paper reported Monday.83

Parents of the dead and injured students, travel to Shanghai on Monday, then fly to San

Francisco, Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, reported. See chapter = “Gov of

China Consulate” for more info on Chinese citizens involved, and arrival of their

families.

Family members of two Chinese victims of Saturday's Asiana crash arrived in San

Francisco from Jiangshan, Zhejiang province on Monday night, while many of those

injured in the crash were still undergoing treatment.84 They were met at SF airport by the

Chinese Consul General in San Francisco Yuan Nansheng.

Tues July-9 (2013 Jul 09)

A delegation from the Chinese consulate met with the student groups which were on the

crashed plane.

The Zhejiang students have decided to return to their home after they met with

the consulate delegation members.

The Shanxi student group, meanwhile, has decided to stay in the US and finish

their planned tour and summer program.

81 http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/08/san-francisco/

82 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/08/china-suspects-school-trips-after-planecrash/

2498183/

83 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/08/china-suspects-school-trips-after-planecrash/

2498183/

84 http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/lqyw/t1057530.htm

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Incident Witness Tales (2013 Jul 08)

Many witness accounts of the plane crash were by people who did not know proper

terminology to describe what they saw, heard, or felt, so perhaps using hand maneuvers

to illustrate the situation, was better than the words. Maybe some did not believe what

they were seeing. Our brain tries to make sense of what the eyes see, and sometimes

makes mistakes.

I saw a simulation on the news media, of plane coming down at too sharp an angle, tail

hitting sea wall and breaking off, then plane on belly, sliding off runway, rotating 90

degrees, sliding sideways, then coming to a halt.85 That seems consistent with the

damage seen after the crash. It makes a lot more sense than people saying the plane cart

wheeled, fish tailed, flipped over on its back, spun around, rolled over and over, implying

more major acrobatics.

However, that is not the whole story. Here is video of the crash which lasts from before

the plane hit, until it stopped sliding. Near the end, we can see the plane partially tip up

again.86

There were more eye witnesses than ear witness accounts. What do we call a passenger

who describes the wild ride – a feel witness?

Lots of conflicting news media stories, unclear sequence of events, since it happened

very rapidly, with many witnesses seeing only part of a larger picture:

 We do not yet know specifics of plane pre-announcing any difficulties, several

witnesses claimed to have seen no emergency vehicles ready when it landed, but

some news media commentators said it was an emergency landing after declaring

it was in distress, and someone reported that when the airplane took off from

Seoul, smoke was seen coming from the airplane. I cannot believe all of these

contradictory stories. This is like the George Zimmerman trial … there was a

fight which lasted several minutes. Each eye or ear witness is only to a small part

of it, and I see no evidence in the trial proving the time stamps are 100% valid.

 Some witnesses claim the landing looked invalid, in terms of angle of descent,

how it hit the ground. Did the tail hit the seawall on landing?

 Nose wheel did not work.

 The plane went thru some acrobatics on the runway, with different people using

terminology that sounds unlikely, given how many people walked away from the

crash.

 Plane cart wheeled. Other people said nonsense, it was a very bad belly flop, with

some wobbling while the pilots struggled to control the plane without the tail

controls. From later pictures after fire out, and volume of passengers who got out

Ok, I have trouble believing the plane cart wheeled. Someone is using

terminology incorrectly.

 Other people said the plane was spinning around.

85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezUS6MHDMbE

86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR67XIUBvMg

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 Tail came off.

 Plane flipped over. I have trouble believing this, given it ended up right side up.

 Wings got damaged.

 Lots of smoke, lots of first responders, airport closed, they got the fire out, but it

burned for a while after the crash.

 Fuselage largely intact, now on its belly, between two runways, near the end, with

front ½ roof either burned off, or may have been removed by the fire fighters, mid

section of plane appears to be partially missing.

 Tail and engines not seen from air with main body, but maybe engines underneath

wings, not visible from above, at end of several hundred feet of debris trail, all the

way to the water’s edge, where the crash landing began.

 SFPD put out a call for any officers who speak Korean to come to SFO.

Air Professional Sources (2013 Jul 07) R

Info from witnesses can be flawed.

Audio tapes can be edited, incomplete story.

Video can be from an angle which does not see the whole story.

Resolving Conflicting Stories (2013 Jul 09) #

In this event, we have the airport saying one thing, and professional pilots who land at

that airport saying another thing … what equipment was working consistently, what types

of problems typical of the airport.

I tend to trust statements of the individual professionals who have direct experience, more

than statements of people in charge of an institution, who may have orders to cover-up

some realities. As the NTSB investigation proceeds, they will be hearing from different

conflicting sources, then sharing what they have found out, and figured out, so far. This

story will change over time, as they encounter the conflicting stories, and figure out how

best to resolve them.

Similarly there are many witnesses, who were in shock with what they saw, at a loss for

the correct terminology to describe what they saw, rapidly shared by the news media.

After those witnesses have been interviewed by professionals, who are able to translate

their info into correct terminology, a lot of the nonsense might be eliminated. I think

those interviews need to have the witnesses holding a model of a plane, illustrating with

their hand movements, what they thought they saw, so as to eliminate confusion caused

when different people say:

 The plane flipped over on its back;

 The plane spun around;

 The plane cart wheeled;

Replace that with what the plane actually did, as shown by hand movements using a

model of a plane, and I think many of the witness contradictions can be eliminated.

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I tend to distrust government sources that are talking about what THEY are doing, and

why they are doing it, thanks to a long history of cover-ups, and conflicts of interest. I

trust sources more when they are talking about what some OTHER organization did, the

more unrelated to them the better. Thus I trust GAO IG NTSB etc. far more than the

institutions they are auditing.

I tend to put more faith in news media close to a breaking news story, than in those

around the world who do not have good sources on the scene, and thus rely on witnesses

who are in shock, and unable to use the correct terminology for what they saw heard felt.

Some sources I was not sure if they were precisely from that area or not.

Since this is a plane crash, there are technical details that mainstream news media may

not share, since there are the dual challenges of figuring out what could have gone wrong,

then explaining it to a non-technical audience, so I will also be looking at professional air

media.

Air Incident sites (2013 Jul 09) # R

Many sites specialize in info about air events and activities.

 All Things Tech87

 Air Accident Statistics88

 Air Flight Information89

 Air Safe dot com90 has info about crashes,91 and for passengers

 Air Safe Foundation92

 Air Traffic Management Net93

 Aviation Safety Network94

 Crash Discovery TV95

 Flight Aware96 has radar data, for people who know how to interpret it.97 But

note comments on the Flying Professor’s physics analysis, about the poor quality

of this data.

 Flying Professors AAR214 radar analysis98 from flight aware.

o New York Times data analysis error99 from flight aware.

 KML file for people who want to visualize the flight path via Google Earth.

 Plane Crash org100

87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUpj-Ia1XpI

88 http://www.eturbonews.com/35553/best-and-worst-aircraft-crash-rates-revealed

89 http://flightaware.com/news/article/Asiana-777-AAR214-crashes-upon-landing-at-SFO/182

90 http://airsafe.com/

91 http://www.airsafe.com/airline.htm

92 http://www.airsafe.org/

93 http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2013/07/live-video-asiana-boeing-777-crash-lands-at-sanfrancisco/

94 http://aviation-safety.net/index.php

95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSWTBN5pw1M

96 http://flightaware.com/

97 http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0730Z/RKSI/KSFO/tracklog

98 http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/

99 http://flyingprofessors.net/flight-214-and-the-new-york-times-data-analysis-blunder/

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 Professional Pilots Rumor Network (PPRuNe) is a site for professional pilots,

whose postings anyone can read.101

o Asiana crash at San Francisco102

o Asiana 777 crash at SFO103

o Boeing 777 crashes while landing at SFO | www.ktvu.com

o KSFO Ground: http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?m..._gnd&icao=ksfo

o KSFO Tower: http://www.liveatc.net/flisten.php?m..._twr&icao=ksfo

o Photo: HL7742 (CN: 29171) Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-28E(ER) by

John Fitzpatrick - JetPhotos.Net

o TV helicopter photos taken close to the aircraft crash site:

 https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/stat...067200/photo/1

https://twitter.com/izzy_the_drizzy/...830400/photo/1

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/stat...089792/photo/1

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/stat...190336/photo/1

 Professional pilots discussing the SFO crash.104

Here is a cockpit view of the approach for a good landing at SFO by an Airbus A380-

800, on wash day.105 Here is info from perspective of flight simulator.106

Wiki (2013 Jul 08) R

The first day, I could not find info about this on Wikpedia, but I found a small mention

on Wikinews.107 But here is the story at Wikipedia.108

Raw Data (2013 Jul 07)

Audio from San Francisco Air Traffic Control at the time of the incident, is available.109

I’d like to see a transcript, since the audio quality aint that good on my PC, and there are

allegations this is not the whole thing.

100 http://www.planecrashes.org/asiana-airlines-boeing-777-crash-landing-san-francisco.html

http://www.planecrashes.org/breaking-news-2-people-died-and-48-injured-asiana-b777-flight-214.html

101 http://www.pprune.org/

102 http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/518568-asiana-flight-crash-san-francisco.html

103 http://www.pprune.org/middle-east/518571-asiana-777-crash-ksfo.html

104 http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/professional-pilots-on-the-san-franciscocrash/

277563/

105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfHl87p7X5o

106 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/flight-simulator-shows-sfo-landing-system-not-likelyfactor-

in-crash/

107

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Asiana_Boeing_777_crashes_upon_landing_at_San_Francisco_International_

Airport?dpl_id=768597

108 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAR214

109 https://soundcloud.com/martyn-williams-6/asiana-214-traffic-with-sfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kBLM-6dUGs

wandr.me/Audio/AAR214-KSFO-Crash.mp3

http://betaplayer.radio.com/player/kcbs-all-news-740-am-1069-fm/

http://au.businessinsider.com/sfo-plane-crash-audio-2013-7

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Here are links to what was being tweeted at the time of the incident:110 Here’s multiple

sources combined into a time line transcript:111 It is unclear, to me, what time zone they

are using.

Boeing 777 aircraft is about 209 feet from nose to tail, and 200 feet from wing tip to wing

tip, with four emergency exits on each side.112 There’s one at very front and rear of the

plane, one just in front, and just behind the wing.

FAA = Federal Aviation Administration (2013 Jul 09)

 FAA general info about SFO.113

 FAA general info about flight delays.114

 FAA Spokes persons, regarding the AAR214 crash.

o Laura Brown

o Lynn Lunsford

Info about pilots stored by the FAA is at grave risk of being breached, according to a

recent Inspector General report.115 - download the report, FI-2013-101 (.pdf)

NTSB = National Transportation Safety Board (2013 Jul 09) R

The NTSB is seeking video footage and photographs from eyewitnesses, which can be

uploaded on its website.116

 NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman is heading the investigation,117 with

investigator in charge Bill English,118 with help from Asiana, ATC, Boeing, FBI,

South Korean aviation investigators from South Korea’s Aviation and Railway

Accident Investigation Board, and others. Crash investigations typically take

years, until we have an official explanation.119 They need to analyze:

a. air-traffic control records;

b. aircraft maintenance records;

c. audio video info captured and shared by many witnesses

d. black boxes

e. crew's actions from data recorders aboard the plane

110 http://www.examiner.com/article/sfo-plane-crash-real-time-photos-video-and-audio-of-flight-214-heavy

111 http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/06/boeing-777-crash-lands-at-san-francisco-international-airport/

112 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/asian-airlines-crash-san-francisco-airportboeing-

777/2496275/

113 http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/AirportLookup.jsp?q=SFO

114 http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp

115

http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/faa-registry-pilots-data-risk-data-breach/2013-07-03

116 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ntsb-plane-crash-update-20130707,0,7134295.story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board

117 http://www.ntsb.gov/

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130706.html

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/asiana214/asiana214.html

118 http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/asiana214/asiana214.html

119 http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2013/07/06/ntsb-airline-crash/2495621/

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f. emergency slides, did they work right

g. interviews with all the survivors

h. radar traces

i. voice records of communications between aircraft, airport, before during

and after the incident

j. weather

k. who initiated exits

l. who led evacuation

 NTSB investigation is organized into several specialized teams.120

a. The operations group will evaluate the airport geography, the cockpit

instruments, seats, windshields, flight plans, training and experience of the

crew, whom investigators will interview in first few days after the crash.

b. The site survey will locate the “four corners of the wreckage” and search

for key parts. Investigators probe seating positions of those killed and

injured, deployment of chutes, use of seat belts and child safety seats.

They will also interview survivors.

c. A “human performance investigator” will perform drug and alcohol

testing, probe fatigue, medication use, sleep disorders and what NTSB

calls “crew resource management -- how they work together and

communicate.”

More info from NTSB:121

 Press release NTSB launching team to investigate Boeing 777 crash in San

Francisco (July 6, 2013)

 Chairman Hersman briefs media on Asiana Flight 214 (July 7, 2013)

 Video B Roll of wreckage from the Asiana flight 214 crash at San Francisco

International Airport

Gov agencies of SF = San Francisco (2013 Jul 09) R

Here is info from various SF government sources.

 San Francisco County and City government site.122

o SF gov news blog.123

o Mayor Edwin M. Lee’s statement about the crash.124

 SFO Airport125 info: SFO website126 or SFO airport official tweets.127

 SFO airport flight operations impacted by the crash.128

120 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-of-crashed-plane-had-43-hours-experience-flyingboeing-

777-asiana-says-20130707,0,7467256.story

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process.html

121 http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/asiana214/asiana214.html

122 http://www.sfgov.org/index.asp

123 http://www5.sfgov.org/sf_news/

124 http://www5.sfgov.org/sf_news/2013/07/airport-update-mayor-lees-statement-on-asiana-airlines-crashat-

sfo.html

125 http://www6.sfgov.org/index.aspx?page=101

126 http://www.flysfo.com/index.html

127 https://twitter.com/flySFO/status/353608132754288640

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 San Francisco Fire Dept.129

Gov of China SF Consulate info (2013 Jul 09) R

China (People’s Republic) Consulate in San Francisco.130

 Victims' families arrive in SF (2013-07-10)

 2 Chinese teens die in air crash (2013-07-10)

 Consul General Yuan Nansheng Greeting Families of Chinese Victims at SFO

(2013-07-09)

 Consul General Yuan Nansheng Visits Injured Chinese Citizens (2013-07-09)

 ROK President Park Geun-hye Sends Condolence Message to President Xi

Jinping over Casualties of Chinese Citizens in Asiana Airlines Plane Crash (2013-

07-09)

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on

July 9, 2013 (2013-07-09)

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on

July 8, 2013 (2013-07-09)

 Consul General Yuan Nansheng Talks about Consular Assistance for Asiana

Airline's Chinese Passengers (2013-07-08)

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang's Remarks on San Francisco Plane

Crash (2013-07-07)

Gov of S Korea SF Consulate info (2013 Jul 09)

S Korea Consulate in San Francisco.131

 CBS News on what the China and Korean embassies are doing, in the aftermath

of the AAR 214 plane crash.132

 South Korea officials quoted.133

Government other source sites (2013 Jul 09)

Here is info from other government sources.

News media portals (2013 Jul 09) R

Several sources have established pages with links to multiple stories about the crash.

 CBS SF Bay Area = KCBS & 5KPIX134

128 http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/orphan/SFOBulletin/flight-operations.html

129 http://www.sf-fire.org/

130 http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/

131 http://south-korea.embassy-online.net/South-Korea-Consulate-General-San-Francisco.php

http://www.consulate-san-francisco.com/korea.html

132 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/08/chinese-consulate-scrambles-to-aid-sfo-plane-crashsurvivors/

133 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-sfo-crash-1-dead-2030-injured-s-korean-officialsays-

20130706,0,2445382.story

134 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/tag/asiana-flight-214/

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News media links (2013 Jul 08)

I use a great abundance of sources, to find out what’s happening, including affiliates of,

or direct links to:

 ABC135

 AP

 Atlantic136

 BNN137 = Buzz News Now

 Breaking News138

 CBS

 CNN139

 Fox140

 HLN

 Los Angeles Times

 MSNBC

 NBC141

 PBS

 Reuters142

 San Francisco Examiner143

 USA Today144

 Verge145

 Washington Guardian

 Washington Post

 WGN

 WQAD

135

http://liveblog.abcnews.go.com/Event/LIVE_UPDATES_Boeing_777_Crash_at_San_Francisco_Airport

136 http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/professional-pilots-on-the-san-franciscocrash/

277563/

137 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c72mOZirHak

138 http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/plane-reportedly-crash-lands-at-san-francisco-airport-july-6-2013

139 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMsAxirM-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jgx6SfaRho

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/06/us/california-plane-incident/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/06/us/california-plane-latest-developments/index.html

140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtc1oZkBl8

141 http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/52409128

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/06/19323541-boeing-777-crashes-while-landing-at-sanfrancisco-

airport

142 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/06/usa-crash-asiana-idUSL2N0FC0F420130706

143 http://www.examiner.com/article/sfo-plane-crash-real-time-photos-video-and-audio-of-flight-214-heavy

144 http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2013/07/06/airline-crash-san-francisco/2495099/

145 http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/6/4499044/samsung-executive-david-eun-in-boeing-777-crash-mosteveryone-

seems-fine

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San Francisco Bay Area News (2013 Jul 09) R

I tend to put more faith in news media close to a breaking news story, than in those

around the world who do not have good sources on the scene, and thus rely on witnesses

who are in shock, and unable to use the correct terminology for what they saw heard felt.

However, some sources I was not sure if they were precisely from that area or not.

Since this is a plane crash, there are technical details that mainstream news media may

not share, since there are the dual challenges of figuring out what could have gone wrong,

then explaining it to a non-technical audience, so I will also be looking at professional air

media.

 Inside Bay Area146

 KSLA147

 KTVU148 had some of the first pictures of the crash

 Mercury News149

 SF Weekly150

 WTXL151

Worldwide news coverage (2013 Jul 08)

The headlines flashed around the world, but foreign media stories, with the big picture,

often did not have their info as up-to-date as media closer to the scene.

Britain’s BBC152

Britain’s Daily Mail153

Britain’s ITN154

Britain’s Guardian155

Canada’s Globe and Mail156

Russia’s Voice157

146 http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23611048/faa-asiana-airlines-flight-crashes-whilelanding-

at

147 http://www.ksla.com/story/22773403/boeing-777-crashes-in-san-francisco

148 http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/boeing-777-crashes-while-landing-sfo/nYfcx/

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/sf-airport-crash-raw-helicopter-video-of-777-crash/v5z6T/

149 http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23610093/social-media-reaction-boeing-777-crashlands-

at

150 http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/07/plane_crashes_at_sfo_asiana_flight.php

151 http://www.wtxl.com/news/update-ntsb-to-investigate-san-francisco-crash/article_e25c25fc-e66f-11e2-

98e5-001a4bcf6878.html

152 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23214499

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23214513

153 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357502/BREAKING-NEWS-Passenger-jet-crashes-San-

Francisco-airport.html

154 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqjCU5ZajY

155 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/san-francisco-airport-plane-crash-boeing

156 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asiana-airlines-flight-crashes-in-sanfrancisco/

article13050774/

157 http://voicerussia.com/2013_07_07/Asiana-Airlines-flight-crashes-while-landing-at-San-Francisco-

International-Airport/

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San Francisco Media sources (2013 Jul 07)

News media local to San Francisco,158 probably will be first to share corrected info.

SF Internet news sites (2013 Jul 07)

 The Bay Citizen non-profit biweekly merged with Center for Investigative

Reporting

 Bernalwood

 Beyond Chron

 The Bold Italic

 Burrito Justice

 Center for Investigative Reporting159

 Curbed SF

 Grubstreet SF

 Haighteration

 Mission Local

 Mission Mission

 Muni Diaries

 SFBay.ca has stories about this crash.

 SF Public Press http://sfpublicpress.org/about

 SF Citizen

 SFist

 Streetsblog SF

 The San Francisco Appeal

 The Tender

 SanFranPreps.com

 UpOut SF

SF Newspapers (2013 Jul 07)

 San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco) http://www.sfgate.com/ - daily

broadsheet

 The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco) - daily tabloid

 Oakland Tribune (Oakland) http://www.insidebayarea.com/ - daily broadsheet

 San Jose Mercury News (San Jose) http://www.mercurynews.com/ - daily

broadsheet

 Marin Independent Journal (Novato) http://www.marinij.com/ daily

broadsheet

 San Francisco Bay Guardian (San Francisco) http://www.sfbg.com/ - weekly

alternative

 SF Weekly (San Francisco) http://www.sfweekly.com/ - weekly alternative

 Metro Silicon Valley (San Jose) - weekly alternative

158 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area

159 http://cironline.org/

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 East Bay Express (Oakland) http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ - weekly

alternative

 San Francisco Business Times (San Francisco) - weekly business* Several other

community-based papers, published on a daily or weekly basis

There’s also many college papers, foreign language media.

SF TV & Radio (2013 Jul 07)

This is not a complete list, just an excellent start.160

 KGO-TV 7 (ABC and CNN affiliate)

 KPIX 5 (CBS and CNN affiliate)

 KTVU 2 (based in Oakland) (FOX and CNN affiliate) http://www.ktvu.com/

 KNTV 11 (based in San Jose) (NBC)

 KBCW 12/44 (CW)

 KQED 9 and KQED Plus (formerly KTEH) 9 & 54 (PBS; latter in San Jose)

 KRON 4 MyNetworkTV (once NBC affiliate, now CNN affiliate)

 KAXT 1 (Independently owned TV station with 12 video & 8 Audio channels)

 KDTV-DT 14 (Univision)

 KEMO 50 (based in Santa Rosa) (Azteca America)

 KFTL 28 (Family Radio TV)

 KSTS 48 (based in San Jose) (Telemundo)

 KKPX-TV 65 ION Television

 KFSF-DT 66 (based in Vallejo) (UniMás)

Radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area

 KCBS

Also note nearby major media centers, Oakland and San Jose.

Key Tags for searches (2013 Jul 09)

These in addition to those hinted at in my earlier notes.

 AOPA = Aircraft Owners and Operators Association161

 Asiana Airlines162 214 incident163

160

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Ar

ea

161 http://www.aopa.org/

162 http://flyasiana.com/gateway/gateway_en.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines

http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23612253/sfo-crash-asiana-airline-statement?source=pkg

163 http://flyasiana.com/notice/notice_en.asp

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 Asiana Airlines statement on Google Plus.164

 Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board of South Korea.

 ATC = Air Traffic Control

 Boeing165 777 crash

 Chinese consulate in San Francisco has been slowly releasing the names of

Chinese citizens who they have confirmed are safe.166

 David Eun, executive vice president at Samsung, was on the plane, tweeted:

a. A photo after he survived the plane crash;

b. "Fire and rescue people all over the place. They're evacuating the injured.

I haven't felt this way since 9/11."

c. He also said that most of the passengers appeared to be OK.

 DOT = US Dept of Transportation

 Go Teams from

a. Boeing

b. NTSB

c. S Korean equivalent of NTSB

 HL-7742 (letters I saw on the wing)

 Incheon International Airport (near Seoul South Korea)

 Montreal Convention that makes final destination where any law suits should be

filed. Passengers with round trip tickets would have to file in China or Korea, not

in USA whose laws are more friendly to airline passengers. This will save Asiana

hundreds of millions in legal expenses, if it turns out to be pilot error.167 If it

turns out to be a problem with the Boeing aircraft or the California airport, then

different situation, dictating where law suits should be filed.

 PAPI = Precision Approach Path Indicator. Many reports claim it was working

during landing, then destroyed in the crash, but many pilots who land at SFO

claim that it is often malfunctioning.

 Red Cross aiding the survivors

 Salvation Army aiding the survivors

 San Francisco EMS168

 San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

 SFO Public info Officer

Revision History (2013 Jul 09)

Between versions shared:

164 https://plus.google.com/114095967881168349734/posts/YiszZ5TSwMZ

165 http://www.boeing.com/boeing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing

166 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-plane-crash-driver20130707,0,7248130.story

167 http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Asiana-Seen-Saving-Millions-With-Tactic-to-Bar-

4654412.php

168 http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6336/web

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 I added more official sources, including chapters for San Francisco government

agencies, consulates of China and South Korea.

 I may need to add a chapter on remaining contradictory claims not yet resolved,

but first I added a chapter on how we may be able to resolve those contradictory

stories.

 I added in parentheses after each chapter heading: 2013 Jul 08, signifying as of

version V 0.6 sharing to Scribd. Perhaps one day earlier for those I know I did

not update today.

 After the date in parentheses for a few chapters I have a few letters to signify

lessons in there:

o # = this chapter has info on how the people delivering info to the public,

and to investigators, can do a better job in the future of getting us reality

instead of misleading info.

o ! = this chapter has info on how the air industry can be further improved to

raise the survivability of plane crash victims, with less serious injuries.

o RED = illuminate source sites worth revisiting every few days, in

anticipation of new and updated info, which might not yet been on the

News pages of major search engines.

Version 0.6 was uploaded July-8 evening in a 170k PDF into my Critical Infrastructure

collection on Scribd.169 These 24 pages of notes had got some more packaging polish,

and reorganization. My working DOC at this point = 385k.

Version 0.5 was uploaded late July-7 in an 85k PDF format into my Disasters and

Avoidance collection on Google Drive docs.170 Then I shared the link with social media

contacts. In this 15 page edition, I had moved urls to footnotes, and shrinking some to

hyperlinks in main body. Some of the contradictory testimony was beginning to

coalesce, but still lots unclear.

Version 0.4 became a doc uploaded July-6 into my Disasters and Avoidance collection on

Google Drive docs.171 At this point it was still obvious that many witness statements were

inconsistent with each other & the evidence. For example a plane which flips over on its

back, does not magically rotate to be on its belly after it has come to a halt. But I did not

know which of the contradictory stories were most reliable Then I shared the link with

my contacts.

I may delete old versions, as I upload revised ones.

Initially I shared versions 1 2 3 with social media and e-mail pals. In the beginning the

urls were in the body of the text, because footnotes don’t work on Google Plus.

169 http://www.scribd.com/collections/4108500/Critical-Infrastructure

http://www.scribd.com/doc/152562460/Boeing-777-crash-San-Francisco-2013-July

170 https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9euafJH4b-

ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw

171 https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B9euafJH4b-

ZMTA0YTM0YzktNTI0YS00NjVhLTg5NTItY2RiZjhiM2MzODkw

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