Top managers of Facebook and Samsung almost hurt in crash
On Sunday, it became known about the crash of Boeing 777 at the airport in San Francisco. The accident itself was the first for the new 777 aircraft series. As stated in the airport, the aircraft of Asiana Airlines came in to land and the pilots incorrectly leveled the fuselage of the machine, resulting in the tail of the aircraft was dropped too low, and the nose is raised too high, and when boarding the plane hit the tail on the runway and the tail fell off, after which the ship covered fire. In another version of the cause of the accident began repair work on the strip and a modified system of automatic landing, taking into account the performance of work on the strip.
One way or another, in the 9-hour flight from Seoul to San Francisco flew 307 people, two of whom were killed and 181 people were wounded, broken bones, burns and injuries.
It is noteworthy that on board the Boeing 777 was vice president of Samsung Electronics, David Yong, who was sitting in the front of the cabin and thus survived. In his Twitter, he wrote that he was all right, although the accident itself, and everything that happened he calls incredible. Note that the blog vice president Samsung on Sunday soared in popularity and in just a few hours after the accident, the message Yuna has gained more than 30,000 genealogy.
In his blog, Yong said that he often flies on planes, but with such a face for the first time. In San Francisco, he flew to the organization of work related to the opening of Samsung Innovation Center in Palo Alto in mid-July.
You may also notice that this flight was going to fly and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. In a blog post on Facebook, she writes that at the last moment she and several other members of Facebook, which also flew from Seoul to San Francisco passed the tickets and get an earlier flight of another airline. Sandberg says that they by chance, move on flight United Airlines, having handed tickets Asiana. Sandberg says that their plane landed in San Francisco for 20 minutes before the crash.
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