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Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight originating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco International Airport near San Francisco, California, United States. On the morning of July 6, 2013, the Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight crashed on final approach into San Francisco International Airport in the United States. Of the 307 people on board, three were killed; another 187 occupants were injured, 49 of them seriously. Among the seriously injured were four flight attendants who were thrown onto the runway while still strapped in their seats when the tail section broke off after striking the seawall short of the runway. This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 777 since the aircraft type entered service in 1995, and the first fatal crash of a passenger airliner on U.S. soil since the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009.