A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash-landed at San Francisco international airport, killing two people and injuring dozens more, officials say.
More than 300 people were on Asiana Airlines Flight 214, from South Korea's capital, Seoul. Passengers and crew escaped down emergency slides as the plane burst into flames.
Asiana has confirmed two female Chinese teenagers have died in the crash.
The airline said mechanical problems did not cause the crash.
The two Chinese teenagers who died had been seated at the back of the aircraft, said Asiana, South Korea's second largest carrier.
They are believed to be the first-ever fatalities in a Boeing 777 crash.
"Currently we understand that there were no engine or mechanical problems," Asiana chief executive Yoon Young-Doo told a news conference in Seoul.
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