Asiana plane crash at San Francisco airport unfolds on social media

Earlier this afternoon Asian Airlines flight 214 from Seoul crash landed at San Francisco International Airport. The Boeing 777-200 reportedly flipped over before the tail broke off.

There are no confirmed reports of fatalities, but no official source has made a statement. Asiana's English- and Korean-language Twitter accounts have not yet made announcements.

San Francisco has cancelled all flights into and out of the airport. A complete list of cancelled flights is listed on FlightAware. The airport's website has crashed repeatedly this afternoon and is not currently available.

Image shared by David Eun on Path.

The event was quickly captured both by survivors who had exited the plane and by passengers waiting inside airport terminals.

David Eun posted the image above to his Path account and to Twitter.

Twitter user stefanielaine posted this picture to her feed, claiming that the trail of smoke behind the United aircraft was the crash taking place. She was at a hotel across from the runway at the time of the crash.

just realized I have a picture of the actual crash. holy fucking shit. pic.twitter.com/5TnOX96Gsi

— stefanielaine (@stefanielaine) July 6, 2013

The New York Times' Nick Bilton has this overhead view of the crash scene:

https://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/353598874088263680

YouTube user straylor posted these two videos of the plane burning:

FlightAware's history of the plane's journey is available here.

Airplane and travel expert Johnny Jet has been tweeting coverage of the event at his account:

RT @SoCalEMSFire: #SFO Update:
303 SOB. All 303 accounted for.
SFFD 3rd Alarm + RED Alert
SMCFD 3rd Alarm
USCG O/S
Asiana Ft 214 from Seoul

— JohnnyJet (@JohnnyJet) July 6, 2013

As a side note, Facebook CFO Sheryl Sandberg posted on her Facebook account that she was meant to be on the flight but changed plans so that she could use United miles: