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Only good thing about that video is that it shows the United 885 out if the way and unharmed. Hopefully the crew saw something that'll be useful to NTSB.

They saw it all...

Yes. The guys in the tower were something else. Sounded like Skywest and horizon got the clue (saw it?) quickly too. Some really great people likely saved a lot of lives today by just "doing their job". I hope people remember this when they're totally ignoring the FAs.


Some of the news coverage makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon though. And I'm not even a heavy pilot, just a lowly Skylane gal.

Question for 777 people:
Assuming both engine generators are gone, and the APU is in pieces somewhere near the threshold, were are the batteries so that the crew could use the radio after they came to a stop? (I know ours are in the tail as well so I'd assume no power at all)
Just for the "fun" of speculating - Listening to the tower recording, just after SkyWest is cleared to land it sounds like the Asiana pilot saying something like "one engine" on the radio before getting stepped on by the tower. A few seconds later all the go arounds start.
Looking at the picture is seems like the aircraft hit right of the centerline and just at the water line. There is a very clear skid mark from just past the numbers to where the nose wheel would be that kind of describes the skidding path it took. There is also a debris path of what looks like the left engine that came to a stop right of the runway just before the next taxiway. I also looks like all the flaps are missing on the left wing.
Possible theory would be the right engine failing on short final and a possible attempt to go around? Over rotated and stalled onto the runway? Right engine was on full power so it is far forward and left engine failed/idle near the fuselage?
Interesting to see what position the flaps we at (Landing or Go-Around)
We all practice Single Engine Go-Arounds, but I would think if and engine failed at 200 feet I would just continue the landing from that point.
Curious to see what the investigation turns up.

They have been for a long time. I think the investigation is joint NTSB and FBI until crime/terror is reasonably ruled out, at which point NTSB takes over.

I've flown airplanes with batteries in the nose.

Does Asiana augment crews for this length of flight? Am wondering if fatigue will be an issue.

I can not be certain, but I would say yes. We do our briefings in the same room in HNL with them and the last time I was doing the HNL-NRT flight there were five of them there. They were flying HNL-NRT and then NRT-ICN. So guess is 3 for the first leg and then 2 for the last leg. Based on that knowledge I would say they would of had 3 on this trip to SFO.

On another note, with where UAL885 was sitting, how did they taxi back to the terminal without crossing the debris field?

A press release from Asiana said there were four flight crewmembers onboard.