Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said on her Facebook that she was originally booked for the Asiana Airlines flight that crash landed in San Francisco International Airport on Sunday.

“My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed,” said Sandberg on her Facebook page. 

The social networking giant’s COO said she switched to a United Airlines flight in order to collect mileage for her family members. The flight carrying Sandberg landed in San Francisco 20 minutes before the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed landed on the runway and reportedly killed two people.

While her real-time post on Facebook about coming close to being in the deadly accident received many sympathetic comments, some Twitter users expressed discomfort about her comment.

“News shouldn’t be about the Facebook COO not being on the SFO plane crash. Focus on the poor souls who were (there),” wrote one Twitter user. 

“I only care about the people (who) actually were on the plane,” another user replied to Sandberg‘s comment. 

Sandberg was on a three-day business trip to Seoul from Wednesday to promote her new book “Lean In.” She held a meeting with Samsung Electronics as a follow-up to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to the Korean tech giant two weeks ago.

Jin Eun-soo, Intern reporter
(janna924@heraldcorp.com)