Asiana Air Boeing 777 Crash Lands at Airport

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Asiana Air Boeing 777 Crash Lands at Airport

San Francisco (Antara Bali) - An Asiana AirlinesBoeing 777 with more than 300 people on boardcrashed while landing at San Francisco airport after a flightfrom Seoul on Saturday and burst into flames, and a number ofpeople injured.

Pictures taken immediately after the crash showed passengersstreaming off the plane. TV footage from the air were later showedthe badly damaged fuselage of the Boeing 777 blackened by fire.        

South Korea's Yonhap news agency in Seoul said the plane hadcarried 292 passengers and 16 crew members.        

Rachael Kagan, a spokeswoman for San Francisco GeneralHospital, said 10 critically injured people had been takenthere, including two children, six women and four men. She saidmost of them spoke only Korean. There were no other immediatereports of casualties.  (ANT/REUTERS/IGT)     
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