Asiana Airlines Flight 214 swept in to land at San Francisco's airport at such a dangerously low altitude that passengers could see the ocean 10 feet below them. "I don't see any runway, I just see water," one tells CNN. Seconds later, the plane plowed into the runway, in yesterday's crash that killed two 16-year-old girls from China and left officials saying only that it should have been much worse. "We're lucky there hasn't been a greater loss of life," says San Francisco's fire chief; 305 people made it out of the wreck alive.
Asiana identified the dead as students Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan; some 70 Chinese students were aboard the flight, en route to summer camp. The NTSB says it has recovered both the plane's black boxes, and that they're on their way to analysis in Washington, DC. There's no cause for the crash as yet, though Asiana's CEO is saying it apparently wasn't engine failure. And in an interesting side note, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that she was supposed to be on Flight 214. "Taking a minute to be thankful," she said in a post, adding that she "switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets." She was in South Korea promoting her book, Lean In. The AP has more on the crash here. (More San Francisco stories.)
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