中国乘客在微博上描述波音在美坠机始末

A Chinese passenger aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214 has described his experience at the moment the plane caught fire.

Xu Da describes the crash on the social network site, Weibo. He says he was seated at one end of the plane and that the plane seemed to lose altitude very quickly on landing. As he looked through the window of the plane, it seemed to be level with the seawall. The plane seemed to dip suddenly and then pull up abruptly. Afterwards he heard a loud explosion and could smell burning and see flames.

In another entry on Weibo, he says, during the half an hour it took between landing to evacuation, the passengers and rescuers all remained very calm. There was no shouting and the passengers evacuated in an orderly fashion.