Kate Belding was out jogging just before 11:30 a.m. “Fire and rescue people all over the place. There were flames and smoke just billowing.”ĭavid Eun, a passenger on the plane, said on Twitter that there were no fatalities that he could see. “And it looked like the plane had completely broken apart. “I mean we were sure that we had just seen a lot of people die. Turner said when she first saw the flight she noticed right away that the angle of its approach seemed strange.

Stephanie Turner saw the plane going down and the rescue slides deploy, but returned to her hotel room before seeing any passengers get off the jet, she told ABC News. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the plane as it was landing, but some eyewitnesses said the aircraft seemed to lose control and that the tail may have hit the ground. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.