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Third Chinese schoolgirl dies in Asiana air crash

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Third Chinese schoolgirl dies in Asiana air crash

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An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 plane is seen after it crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport in California, in this file aerial view taken July 6, 2013. REUTERS/Jed Jacobsohn/Files

By Gerry Shih and Sarah McBride

SAN FRANCISCO | Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:19am EDT
(Reuters) - A Chinese girl died in a San Francisco hospital on Friday, becoming the third fatality in the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at the city's airport last Saturday, doctors and Chinese officials said.

The teenage girl, who died on Friday morning, had been in critical condition, according to a statement from two doctors at San Francisco General Hospital. Her parents asked the hospital not to release further information.

The girl was a Chinese national, according to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. She was part of a group of students from eastern China who were visiting the United States to attend summer camp, one of the trip organizers said. He said she was 16.

The crash landing of the Boeing 777 also killed two other Chinese girls from the school group and injured more than 180 people. Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, the two teenagers who died on Saturday, were sitting in the back of the plane, which hit the seawall and suffered the most damage.

One of the girls was run over by a fire truck rushing to the scene, the San Francisco Police Department said on Friday, although it was unclear whether she was still alive at the time.

She was obscured by fire retardant foam and was found in the fire truck's tracks when it moved to fight flames in the fuselage, police spokesman Albie Esparza said.

The coroner in San Mateo County, where the airport is located, has said he will release the autopsy results of the two girls who died on Saturday within two weeks.

Most of the injured passengers were taken to San Francisco General Hospital and to Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

San Francisco General, which originally received 67 patients, still has six, including two in critical condition. The six suffered a combination of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, abdominal injuries, internal bleeding, road rash and fractures, the hospital said.

Stanford still has one patient, who is in serious condition, a spokesman said. It treated 55 patients from the crash.

At least seven patients remain at other hospitals.

(Reporting By Sarah McBride, Gerry Shih and Kristina Cooke; Editing by Sandra Maler and Peter Cooney)

 

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Asiana Plane Crash: Child Is The Third Victim

The Chinese national had been in a critical condition after the Asiana Airlines flight crashed at San Francisco airport.

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The charred remains of the Asiana Airlines flight 214 sits on the runway at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California

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Debris left by the crash (Pic: NTSB)

A child has died following the Asiana flight crash, officials have said, becoming the third victim of the San Francisco disaster.

The girl, a Chinese national, had been in a critical condition, according to a statement from doctors at San Francisco General Hospital.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 collided with a rocky seawall just short of its intended airport runway last week. Investigators have said the plane came in too low and slow.

Two Chinese teenage girls also died in the crash and 180 people were injured.

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Ye Mengyuan

One of the teenagers, 16-year-old Ye Mengyuan, was struck by a fire truck while she was covered in foam sprayed to douse the jet's fire, police said earlier.

It was not clear whether she was already dead or whether she was alive after the accident.

Authorities were still trying to determine the cause of death.

Police officials confirmed she was hit after responding emergency personnel failed to see her on the ground near the downed airliner.

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Wang Linija

"When the fire truck repositioned itself to continue battling flames from the fuselage, the victim passenger was found in the tyre track of the fire truck," police spokesman Albie Esparza said.

San Francisco fire officials said the other victim of the crash, 16-year-old Wang Linjia, was already dead when airport staff found her near the runway.

Nearly a week after the crash, investigators have pieced together an outline of the event.

With each new bit of information, the picture emerging is of pilots who were supposed to be closely monitoring the plane's airspeed, but who did not realise until too late that the aircraft was dangerously low and slow.

Nothing disclosed so far by the National Transportation Safety Board investigators indicates any problems with the Boeing 777's engines or the functioning of its computers and automated systems.

The flight's four pilots have been interviewed, as have passengers and dozens of witnesses.

Air traffic control recordings and video of the flight's last moments, including the crash itself, also have been examined.

 
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