New footage surfaces of 2013 Asiana Airlines crash at SFO

An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 airplane lies burned on the runway after it crashed landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013. An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 airplane lies burned on the runway after it crashed landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013. Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Image 1 of / 58 Caption Close New footage surfaces of 2013 Asiana Airlines crash at SFO 1 / 58 Back to Gallery

A 47-minute video showing the dramatic 2013 crash, fire and evacuation of an Asiana Airlines jetliner at San Francisco International Airport has turned up on an online video sharing service.

The previously unreleased video, purportedly recorded by an airport control tower camera, shows the Asiana jet approaching the runway from the south and then becoming enveloped in clouds of white and black smoke. Passengers are seen escaping the crippled airliner on inflatable slides while firefighters turn hoses onto the blaze.

Airport spokesman Jon Ballesteros said the airport was aware of the release of the video, which he confirmed was authentic. He said the video had previously been shared only with investigators and as part of safety training sessions. He said the airport officials did not know how it wound up online.

“It illustrates the rapid response of airport firefighters and how quickly they knocked down the fire,” he said.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777 inbound from Seoul, Korea, with 307 passengers and crew aboard, crashed on July 6, 2013, when its landing gear struck a seawall just south of the main runway. Three people died and 187 others were injured. Federal investigators found that pilot error caused the airplane to approach the runway too low.

The video was published on YouTube on June 28 on the “What You Haven’t Seen” channel. It begins with the plane still airborne, on final approach. Seventeen seconds into the video, the plane crashes. About two minutes later, two emergency slides are shown inflating and the first passengers begin evacuating on the left side of the plane and through the tail while arriving firefighters begin hosing down the aircraft.

A yellow caption on the video indicates that it was filmed by “camera 225” on the terminal 2 roof tower. Another caption on the video says “don’t distribute.”

The owner of the “What You Haven’t Seen” channel is not identified. As of Wednesday morning, more than 34,000 people had viewed the video, according to YouTube.