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Passenger Ben Levy: "It happened in a flash, nobody was worried about anything"
Pilots of the plane that crashed at San Francisco airport on Saturday tried to abort the landing seconds before touching down, US investigators say.
Initial inquiries suggested the Asiana plane was flying "significantly below" its target speed on approach.
And the Korean airline revealed that the pilot was landing a Boeing 777 at San Francisco for the first time.
Two Chinese teenagers died and more than 180 people were injured when the plane hit the seawall.
Sixty of the passengers on board the flight from Seoul, including the two girls who died, were Chinese schoolchildren on their way to summer camp.
Chinese state media named the two as Ye Mengyuan, 16, and Wang Linjia, 17, who were classmates at a school in eastern Zhejiang Province.
Both girls were pronounced dead at the airport, but US investigators said one of them might have died after being run over by an emergency vehicle.
Their families, as well as relatives of the injured, are travelling to San Francisco.
More than 30 people remained in hospital late on Sunday.
Medical officials said eight were listed in critical condition, including two with paralysis from spinal injuries.
Asiana said 141 of the 291 passengers were Chinese, 77 were Korean and 61 were Americans.
'Standard practice'At a news conference on Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chief Deborah Hersman said the aircraft's speed was below the planned 137 knots (158mph; 254km/h) as it approached the runway.
"We are not talking about a few knots here or there. We're talking about a significant amount of speed below 137," she said.
Continue reading the main storyShe said the pilots had tried to speed up, before trying to abort the landing less than two seconds before touching down.
Ms Hersman stressed that it was too early to speculate on precise causes for the accident.
The airline said mechanical failure did not appear to have been a factor.
Late on Sunday, Asiana released more details about the pilot, Lee Kang-kuk.
They said he had only 43 flying hours in a Boeing 777, and was assisted by another more experienced pilot as he landed the aircraft.
The airline insisted such in-flight supervision was standard practice within the aviation industry.
Meanwhile, US officials confirmed that a navigation system helping pilots make safe descents had been turned off for maintenance since June.
The Glide Path is used for landings in bad weather conditions; however, it was clear and sunny when the Asiana Airlines aircraft crashed.
'Chaos, disbelief'The Boeing 777 has a good safety record, and this is thought to be the first fatal crash.
The only previous notable crash occurred when a British Airways plane landed short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport in 2008.
- Twin-engine jet launched in June 1995
- One of the world's most popular long-distance planes
- Seats between 300 and 380 passengers
- Has flown around five million flights
- Often used for non-stop flights of 16 hours or more
- Prior to Asiana crash, only one fatal accident when a crew member died during a re-fuelling fire at Denver International Airport in September 2001
Footage of the scene showed debris strewn on the runway and smoke pouring from the jet, as fire crews sprayed a white fire retardant into gaping holes in the aircraft's roof.
One engine and the tail fin were broken away from the main wreckage.
Passenger Ben Levy said the accident "happened in a flash" and there was "chaos, disbelief, screaming".
"My seat had been pushed to the floor, it was a mess everywhere," he said.
Nevertheless, people "calmed down pretty quickly" and evacuated the plane without pushing or stepping on each other.
Another passenger, David Eun, tweeted a picture of people evacuating down the plane's emergency inflatable slides and wrote: "I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal."
A witness to the crash, Ki Siadatan, said the plane "looked out of control" as it descended over San Francisco Bay to land just before 11:30 (18:30 GMT).
"We heard a 'boom' and saw the plane disappear into a cloud of dust and smoke," he told the BBC. "There was then a second explosion."
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