There are a number of developments in the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on Saturday, not least of which is the emergence of amateur video of the crash.

Fred Hayes was recording planes arriving and departing from SFO when the Ariana flight came in too low and too slow, capturing the moment it clipped the sea wall and lost its vertical stabilizer and short wings on the tail.  Despite the damage from tumbling down the runway, both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered and are being analyzed by investigators.

Deborah Hersman of the US National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday afternoon said that the plane was coming in at an approach speed much lower than 137 knots.  Boeing specifies 136 knots as the 777’s approach speed. 

Just seconds before the plane made contact, the cockpit had signaled it wanted to go around and attempt the land a second time. 

The death toll stands at two lives lost, both teenage girls from China on their way to a summer camp in America.  182 of the 300+ people on board were rushed to area hospitals.  Injuries range from bumps and scrapes, to severe ‘road rash’, to paralysis.  But all of the passengers and crew are accounted for, and earlier fears of finding more people in the burned out husk of the airplane did not come to pass.  All but two were able to make it off.