Wow, that's some bad news. Hope no one was killed or seriously hurt.
Wow, that's some bad news. Hope no one was killed or seriously hurt.
What I think I saw on TV showed the fuselage upright but setting on the ground. The wings looked as if they were upside down. Usually the wing tips are flipped up not down.
After looking at the layout of the San Fran airport, where the tail of the triple 7 struck first, and where the aircraft stopped skidding, there is more to this than meets the eye.
I would not be surprised to find the pilot who at first appeared to have landed short worked a miracle by making the runway at all.
I will not speculate on the cause prior to the tail striking the sea wall, but after that event there is little the pilot could have done. It is all inertia and physics at that point of the landing with no tail attached.