UPDATE: Asiana Boeing 777 Crash Caught on Film, One Victim May Have Been Run Over (+video)
Photo Credit: Carlos Avila GonzalezOfficial: SF plane crash victim may have been run over
By Jaxon Van Derbeken. An autopsy was being conducted Sunday to determine whether one of the two teenaged passengers killed on the Asiana Airlines flight had been run over by a San Francisco fire rig at the crash scene.
The 16-year-old girl was found near the evacuation slide near the left wing of Asiana Flight 214 which crashed Saturday during a landing at San Francisco International Airport. The girl was not identified.
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said Sunday her injuries are consistent with her having been run over.
“As it possibly could have happened, based on the injuries sustained, it could have been one of our vehicles that added to the injuries, or another vehicle,” Hayes-White said. “That could have been something that happened in the chaos. It will be part of our investigation.”
Hayes-White said that a runway video recording of the first seconds of the crash could help unravel what occurred. “Part of it was pretty good vantage point,” she said. Read more from this story HERE.
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Photo Credit: APCrash Survivor: Flight attendants ‘fell out’ of the back of the plane
By Madeleine Morgenstern. A survivor of the Asiana Airlines plane crash at San Francisco International Airport said flight attendants “fell out” of the back of the plane after the tail section broke off.
“Right when it appeared to coast for the landing,…(he) sped up, like the pilot knew he was short,” Elliott Stone told CNN, according to the Agence France-Presse news agency. “And then the back end just hit, and flies up in the air, and everybody’s head goes up to the ceiling. And then it just kind of drifts for a little bit, for a good 300 yards and then tips over. Fire starts.”
Two passengers identified as teen girls from China were found outside the wreckage and confirmed dead, and 182 people were transported to area hospitals, 49 with critical injuries. The flight had been carrying 307 people.
Stone said he was able to evacuate safely because he was seated in the middle of the Boeing 777, but the flight attendants seated in the back “got hammered, because we landed short.”
“And then they all fell out – and it was just the most terrible thing I’ve seen,” he said. Read more from this story HERE.