The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a teenage survivor of the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport was run over by not one but two Fire Department rigs after firefighters mistakenly concluded she was dead without checking her vital signs, according to findings of a federal investigation released Wednesday.
The Fire Department had already admitted that one foam-spraying rig ran over 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan of China as it took part in firefighting efforts after the July 6 crash, in what Chief Joanne Hayes-White has called “a tragic accident.”
But documents released Wednesday show that a second rig involved in the response also ran over Ye. That rig’s spotter had seen the girl on the ground in the fetal position and directed the driver around her as she lay near the burning Boeing 777’s left wing.
观测员然后去帮助在事故现场。Fourteen minutes later, that rig was the first to strike the victim, who by then was covered with flame-retardant foam, according to summaries of firefighter interviews released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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