A 16-year-old woman survived a airplane crash solely to be run over twice and killed by a fireplace struck responding to the scene of the incident moments later.
Ye Meng Yuan was sitting at the back of the airplane and is believed to have been ejected onto the tarmac of the airport the place later she was struck and killed by the emergency car, in line with the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office.
Police stated {the teenager} was coated in foam rescuers had sprayed on the burning wreckage of the Asiana Flight 214 that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, having travelled from South Korea.
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“The driver [of the fire truck] may not have seen the young lady in the blanket of foam,” Ken Willette of the National Firefighter Protection Agency stated on the time. “These could be factors contributing to this tragic event.”
However, video footage from a digital camera mounted on a San Francisco fireplace truck obtained by CBS exhibits two emergency responders alerting automobiles to go round Chinese pupil Yuan as she lay on the bottom as a result of they thought she was useless.
She was run over not less than twice and it was solely when the fireplace truck moved that rescuers discovered Yuan’s physique. Her good friend from center faculty Wang Linjia, 16, died within the crash and 15-year-old Liu Yipeng died in hospital on July 12. Dozens of others have been injured with 182 of 302 survivors being taken to hospitals.
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The crash-landing occurred when the airplane collided with a seawall moments away from the runway and the investigation instructed the pilots failed to understand inside good time that the plane was flying too sluggish and low.
The airplane made influence and after a minute or so a darkish plume of smoke was seen rising from the wreckage, with the fireplace being traced to a ruptured oil tank above the suitable engine. The leaking oil fell onto the recent engine and ignited the blaze.
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Asiana Airlines attendants have been heralded heroes for serving to save passengers, with cabin supervisor Lee Yoon-hye having been “the last person to leave the burning plane” in line with AP. She informed AP on the time that one among her colleagues carried a frightened schoolboy on her again off the airplane and down the emergency exit slide.
Passenger Eugene Anthony Rah, who was sitting in enterprise class on Asiana Flight 214, informed The Wall Street Journal: “She was a hero. This tiny, little girl was carrying people piggyback, running everywhere, with tears running down her face. She was crying, but she was still so calm and helping people.”
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San Francisco fireplace chief Joanne Hayes-White praised Lee: “She was so composed I thought she had come from the terminal. She wanted to make sure that everyone was off… She was a hero.”
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