Update: two people have died, and more than 100 have been sent to the hospital as of 7:55 EST. The original version of this report stated one person died, and between 20 and 30 were injured.
A plane headed for San Francisco from Seoul crashed Saturday while trying to land at the city's airport, killing two and injuring more than 100.
The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carried at least 300 people when it hit San Francisco International Airport, according to Reuters.
Spokesperson for San Francisco General Hospital Rachael Kagan reported that 10 people are critically injured-among them, two were children, six women and four men.
141 of the passengers were Chinese, 77 were South Korean and 61 had United States citizenship, according to an airline official in Seoul.
According to South Korean news outlet Yonhap, there were 292 passengers aboard, along with 16 members of crew.
Video footage of the scene in air bore images of the plane's fuselage seriously damaged-part of it caught on fire before the plane hit the ground.
A spectator who watched from his nearby hotel window claimed he saw the aircraft turn down the runway, as the tail and wing flew off.
"You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came out from underneath the aircraft," Anthony Castorani told CNN. "At that moment, you could see that that aircraft was again starting to lift and it began to carwheel. The wing broke off on the left hand side. You could see the tail immediately fly off of the aircraft. As the aircraft cartwheeled, it then landed down and the other wing had broken."
47-year-old Fawen Yan of Richmond, Calif. was returning to the Bay Area when his sister-in-law, Ying Kong, who was waiting at the airport for him, received a call from him, telling her that he'd been in a crash.
She said he telephoned her to assuage her concerns, saying that it was "really smoky and scary."
"He feels it difficult to breathe, but he's okay," she stated. "He said a lot of people had to run. He said some people got hurt."
Photos shot after the crash depict passengers rushing off the plane on passenger slides.
A handful of flights bound for SFO have been canceled, according to CNN.
