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ATC Audio from Asiana Flight 214 SFO Plane Crash!


Two people died after a Boeing 777 from South Korea crashed Saturday upon landing at San Francisco's airport, sending up a huge fireball, shedding its tail and spinning before screeching to a stop. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 left Seoul's Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday, according to FlightAware, a website that offers tracking services for private and commercial air traffic. An airline spokesman in Seoul told CNN that 291 passengers and 16 staff members were aboard when it crashed around 11:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. ET). Two people have died, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. She said around 4:10 p.m that more than 60 people were unaccounted for. But about 1 1/2 hours later, Assistant Deputy Chief Dale Carnes from the same San Francisco fire department said authorities had accounted for 306 people -- leaving just one person who still was not. 'I just crash landed at SFO. I'm ok. Surreal' Local hospitals have treated 181 passengers and crew, 49 of whom were in what Carnes described as "serious" condition. Another 123 people now in the airport terminals were "uninjured," he said. Nine Bay Area hospitals are treating patients, Hayes-White had said. Air traffic control audio -- between the airport's tower and Flight 214 crew members -- suggested that those on the ground knew there was some sort of problem, promising that "emergency vehicles are responding." "We have everyone on their way," the air traffic controller said, according to LiveATC.net, a website that provides air traffic control audio. One of those on the flight, Elliott Stone, told CNN that he thought the plane was approaching "a little high (then came) down a little sharp. "All of a sudden, boom, the back end just hit and flies up into the air and everyone's head goes up the ceiling," said Stone, who added that he ended up jumping out the plane without using the stairs or an evacuation slide. Anthony Castorani, who witnessed the landing from a nearby hotel, said the plane touch the ground then noticed a large plume of smoke. "You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came from underneath the aircraft," he told CNN. Passenger: 'We just jumped off' plane NTSB: We'll look for flight recorders 'The wheels ... were too low, too soon' Plane loses tail during crash landing Plane crashes at San Francisco airport 'Large, brief fireball' as plane landed Kristina Stapchuck saw the dramatic scene unfold from her seat on a plane on the airport tarmac. Soon after Flight 214 touched down, "it looked like the tires slipped a little bit and it rocked back," she told CNN. Parts of the plane began to break off as it rocked and then began to spin. Follow latest developments in the story "It all happened so suddenly," Stapchuck told CNN. A photo provided to CNN by Eunice Bird Rah -- and shot by her father, who was a passenger on the plane -- shows flames and smoke bursting out of many of the aircraft's windows. Rah's father knew something bad was coming, he told his daughter, telling her that the pilot appeared to try to raise the plane at the last minute. Rah said her father "is doing fine, thank God," but noted that others appeared to be hurt. Said Rah: "It's heartbreaking."

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