An Asiana Flight 214, Boeing 777 passenger jet, has crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing 2 passengers with 48 others injured, according to the latest reports…but have not as yet been confirmed

There are conflicting eyewitness reports as to what happened but it appears the plane’s tail struck the end of the runway as it was landing which ripped off its tail. The plane then belly landed on the ground and slid to a stop several hundred yards ending up on a dirt runway apron

Passengers scrambled to escape via emergency slides

The flight was inbound from Seoul, South Korea

A passenger, David Eun, has tweeted the following

‘I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I’m ok. Surreal’

Investigators have found no evidence of mechanical problems with Asiana Flight 214, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday, putting the focus of the safety probe into the crash landing at the San Francisco airport squarely on the pilots

In her final briefing before the agency concludes its on-site detective work, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said the airplane itself showed no signs of a breakdown, and on voice recorders, the pilots of the Boeing 777 fail to notice that their approach is dangerously low and slow until it's too late

"There is no mention of speed until about nine seconds before impact when they're at 100 feet," she said Thursday. Just seconds before impact, two of the pilots call for the landing to be aborted

The airliner itself, though heavily damaged in the crash, had no malfunctions in any critical systems, including the engines and flight-control surfaces, the autopilot, the autothrottles and the flight director, she said

During the first five days of the NTSB investigation, Hersman has said repeatedly that pilots Lee Gang-kuk, who was landing the big jet for his first time at the San Francisco airport, and Lee Jeong-Min, who was training him, were ultimately responsible for a safe landing.