Posted on 07/08/2013 5:31:39 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A San Francisco-area coroner whose office received the bodies of two teenage victims of the Asiana plane crash says officials are conducting an autopsy to determine if one of the girls was run over and killed by a rescue vehicle.
San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault says Sunday that senior San Francisco Fire Department officials notified him and his staff at the crash site on Saturday that one of the 16-year-olds may have been struck on the runaway.
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Chinese state media reported Sunday that the two fatalities in Saturday afternoon's plane crash at the San Francisco International Airport were 16-year-old Chinese schoolgirls named Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia.
The two girls came with a group of 29 students and five teachers from a highly competitive school in Zhejiang, an affluent coastal province.
While declining to identify the victims, earlier a San Francisco fire official said both victims had been found on the "exterior" of the plane. A spokesman for Asiana Airlines said the two killed Chinese teenagers were seated at the back of the plane, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
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I’ll wait for the coroner’s report ... hard to believe someone ejected from a landing/crashing 777 could survive the initial impact.
That could have happened if she was covered in the foam that was sprayed around the plane. Sad.
I doubt she was alive and we don’t even know for sure if she was run over. This story sounds more like media headhunting.
I’m guessing that if they were ejected, they were flung hundreds of feet through the air before hitting the ground.
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