The death toll of Asiana Arilines flight 214 which crashed today at San Francisco's International Airport was at two as of noon Saturday, according to a report from CNN affiliate KTVU and the Associated Press.

Early reports claimed that 61 people were injured in the crash. Sources at the Fire Department in San Francisco told KTVU and the Associated Press that 61 people were injured, according to a report published at noon. However, later in the afternoon the figure dropped to 40 people injured, according to a report published at 2:27 p.m. PST by the San Francisco Chronicle.

A spokeswoman for San Francisco's General Hospital told the Chronicle that 40 people had been badly injured. Ten of them were in critical condition including two children.

One of the survivors described the horrific scene on his Twitter account and posted pictures of the aftermath.

"I just landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal..." wrote Twitter user David Eun

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was traveling from Seoul, South Korea with 292 passengers and 16 crew members on board, according to Reuters.
Soon after the Boeing 777 airplane touched down, parts of the top of the aircraft were gone entirely. The airplane was resting on its belly with no landing gear visible and the back tail of the plane disappeared.

Firemen arrived to the crash scene and emergency crews could be seen attending people and evacuating passengers as smoke came out of the plane.

It remains unclear what was the reason for the crash.

"You heard a pop and you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came out from underneath the aircraft," Anthony Castorani a witness who saw the incident from a nearby hotel told CNN on Saturday.

"At that moment, you could see that that aircraft was again starting to lift and it began to cartwheel ... You could see the tail immediately fly off of the aircraft," he said.

Raw images posted on YouTube, showed a large plume of dark smoke coming out of the airplane after it crashed on the runway.