Asiana crash victim alive before being run over

[IGotWorms 4,063]

CNN) - Teenager Ye Meng Yuan didn't die when a plane crashed at San Francisco International Airport last July. She actually survived the impact -- only to die minutes later after a fire truck ran over her.

 

Now, newly released video obtained by CBS suggests emergency workers saw Ye's injured body on the ground before she was fatally struck -- challenging earlier claims that she was accidentally run over because she may have been covered in firefighting foam.

 

In the footage, one firefighter tried to stop an emergency vehicle racing toward the scene.

 

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, stop, stop! There's a body ... there's a body right there. Right in front of you," the firefighter told the driver.

 

The video was captured on a camera attached to a firefighter's helmet. CBS said it obtained the footage from a source close to Ye's family.

 

Another video from a fire truck shows a firefighter on the ground directing the truck around a victim, who was not covered in foam at the time.

 

Ye was eventually run over by a fire truck, San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said last July.

 

"I particularly want to express our condolences and apologies to the family of Ye Meng Yuan," the chief said. "We're heartbroken. We're in the business of saving lives ... There's not a lot of words to describe how badly we feel about it."

 

A California coroner ruled that Ye was alive when flung from the plane but died of "multiple blunt injuries that are consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle."

 

"Those injuries she received, she was alive at the time," San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said.

 

The 16-year-old girl's parents have filed a claim against the city and county of San Francisco, saying emergency responders "were grossly negligent."

 

In the claim filed against the city, attorneys for Ye's family wrote that emergency workers who spotted Ye on the ground "failed to move her to a safe location, failed to mark her location; failed to protect her from moving vehicles in the vicinity of the aircraft where it was known that vehicles would be traveling; failed to alert commanders at the scene; and/or abandoned Ye Meng Yuan in a perilous location."

Can you imagine that, surviving a plane crash only to be run over by rescuers?

 

I'm sure it was a very chaotic scene though. I feel very badly for the firefighter who ran her over, the guilt must be unbearable.

[Phurfur 70]

Moon landing

[IGotWorms 4,063]

Moon landing

I must've missed the other thread. Link please?

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

Can size?

[IGotWorms 4,063]

Can size?

CNN doesn't understand proper Geek etiquette

[Phurfur 70]

I must've missed the other thread. Link please?

http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=419409&hl=flight

 

Or you forgot, this came out in July right after the crash.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Current events boggle Worms' mind.

[IGotWorms 4,063]

http://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=419409&hl=flight

 

Or you forgot, this came out in July right after the crash.

Oh OK, so you're pointing to a thread from six months ago when it had not yet been confirmed and all the details weren't available?

 

And this coming from the guy who feels the need to post thread after thread every single day complaining about the same old political bullsh!t?

[kilroy69 1,268]

who lays on the tarmac like a dead fish.....eater. Get up and run bia or you gonna get smoked.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Oh OK, so you're pointing to a thread from six months ago when it had not yet been confirmed and all the details weren't available?

 

 

 

It came out almost immediately she was run over by the rescuers. Worms behind the times.......shocking really.

[RLLD 4,275]

So clearly the driver of the emergency vehicle was also Asian

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,433]

So clearly the driver of the emergency vehicle was also an Asian woman

Fixed

[Voltaire 5,491]

At least one Chinese Mother-in-Law was prepared for when this story broke. She had watched me do the ambulance missions in Grand Theft Auto.

[Phurfur 70]

SAN FRANCISCO – Video from the helmet camera of a firefighter responding to the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows at least one rescuer was aware someone was on the ground outside the aircraft and even warned a colleague. Yet two fire trucks subsequently ran over an injured passenger.

 

The video, first aired by CBS News on Tuesday, shows the girl, 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, lying in the grass before she was struck, according to an attorney for her family. A coroner concluded she was alive at the time and died when she was later hit by a fire truck.

 

In the video, a firefighter with a helmet camera tells the driver of a fire truck that there's a person in front of him. A fire truck-mounted camera shows a firefighter directing the truck away from the person.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/16/video-reveals-asiana-crash-firefighters-saw-girl-before-hitting-killing-her/?intcmp=latestnews

[edjr 6,899]

This story seems incorrect.

 

You sure it wasn't an Asian driving the fire engine?

[IGotWorms 4,063]

SAN FRANCISCO Video from the helmet camera of a firefighter responding to the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows at least one rescuer was aware someone was on the ground outside the aircraft and even warned a colleague. Yet two fire trucks subsequently ran over an injured passenger.

 

The video, first aired by CBS News on Tuesday, shows the girl, 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, lying in the grass before she was struck, according to an attorney for her family. A coroner concluded she was alive at the time and died when she was later hit by a fire truck.

 

In the video, a firefighter with a helmet camera tells the driver of a fire truck that there's a person in front of him. A fire truck-mounted camera shows a firefighter directing the truck away from the person.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/16/video-reveals-asiana-crash-firefighters-saw-girl-before-hitting-killing-her/?intcmp=latestnews

I guess now it's true since it was on Fox News?

[Recliner Pilot 61]

This story seems incorrect.

 

You sure it wasn't an Asian driving the fire engine?

Even funnier the second time around.

[Phurfur 70]

I guess now it's true since it was on Fox News?

FOX had this story nailed in June it was your news sources that lagged behind. I remember them praising the first responders on what a great they did. HTH

[IGotWorms 4,063]

FOX had this story nailed in June it was your news sources that lagged behind.

Oh really? Because the Fox News story that you just quoted, that had actual details about what occurred, was from today