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Old 7th Jul 2013, 03:18
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mickjoebill
 
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Press conference

Press conference with fire airport and local government reps;

Praising 1st responders who went into the plane.
130 specialist medical staff at local hospital within 30 minutes.
9 hospitals accepting passengers
Many interpreters came forward to help.

All 307 passengers and crew accounted for
123 not injured
2 fatalities.
49 judged serious/critical at time of accident, 10 still critical.
2 Fatalities were found "outside the plane" ...."on the runway".

Two runways closed two have been reopened.
NTSB Washington team arriving at midnight.
Some runway construction but not at time of incident.
Runway or perhaps threshold had been extended, but runway had not been "reconfigured".

Fire Crews arrived in 3 minutes and applied water and foam, chutes already had been deployed.
Rescue team searched aircraft once passengers had ceased coming down shoots.

In response to questions, airport rep says weather clear of they were operating VFR rules so ILS was "not turned on"


Next briefing tomorrow morning.

KCBS local radio report;
Mills hospital took 12 all are ok.

Stanford Hospital took 45, report 10 serious, 3 critical, doctor says they will all probably survive.
They activated seven trauma teams, some victims were transported by helicopter.
Internal bleeding fractures and spinal injuries.

Burn unit director at Saint Francis Hospital, says they took 6 patients, 5 were released.
Saint Francis only takes burns not trauma, so we assume these patients did not have trauma. 1 day in hospital for each % of body burned..
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