“From seat 30K, Benjamin Levy knew something was wrong. Outside his window, as the plane approached the airport where Mr. Levy, a frequent traveler, knew there should have been tarmac, there was instead a terrifying sight: the waters of San Francisco Bay.” The NYT has the latest on Asiana Flight 214 that crash landed at SFO.

+ So far, two people have died, and one of them may have been killed by an emergency vehicle.

+ From Time: San Francisco’s Boeing 777 Crash: Why It Was Survivable.

+ Over the weekend, a runaway 72-car freight train carrying crude oil derailed and caused a series of explosions in Lac-Mégantic, a lakeside town in Quebec. InFocus has a collection of photos from the scene.