Firefighters missed a “short window of opportunity” to prevent a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines crash from being run over by two San Francisco fire rigs, a death that “never should have” happened, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday.
At least two firefighters who looked at Ye Meng Yuan and decided she was dead could have examined her to verify that conclusion, but failed to do so, safety board investigator Jason Fedok said at a Washington hearing looking into the July 6 crash.
Ye, a Chinese schoolgirl flying to the U.S. to attend a religious camp in the San Fernando Valley, and a companion who also died were thrown from the plane when it crashed because they weren’t wearing seat belts, Fedok said. They would probably have survived if they had been belted in, he said.
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