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Air Crash Victim Who Was Run Over by Fire Truck
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Asiana Flight 214 victim was `not properly cared for' by firefighters before she was killed by a fire truck: family lawyer
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BY CAROL KURUVILLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013, 12:16 PM
Ye Mengyuan was a 16-year-old student from Jiangshan city in eastern China's Zhejiang province. She was a champion athlete who excelled at literature, playing the piano, singing and public speaking. Her given name means "wish come true" in Chinese. Ye was one of three victims of the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco.
"Multiple" firefighters knew that an Asiana Flight 214 victim had been extracted from the plane and placed in a dangerous spot before she was killed by a speeding fire truck, her family's lawyer said.
Sixteen-year-old Ye Mengyuan was "left unattended and not properly protected, tended to or properly cared for," attorney Anthony Tarricone, of Kreindler & Kreindler, told the San Jose Mercury News. "She did not have fatal injuries or injuries that would have resulted in death before she was run over by that truck."
The Chinese teenager was seated near the back of the incoming Boeing 777 when it slammed into a seawall at the San Francisco International Airport. Her foam-covered body was later discovered near the front of the plane's left wing. Investigators have not explained how the young girl ended up at the front of the wrecked plane, but they have confirmed that she was alive before a fire truck ran her over.
According to a report by ABC7, a San Francisco firefighter pulled Ye from the burning plane during the chaos of the rescue effort. The unidentified firefighter then placed the girl near the wing.
"We know that multiple firefighters knew she was there, and she was left there to fend for herself before the foam was put down," Tarricone told Mercury News.
Forty-nine-year-old Elyse Duckett, a firefighter who was late to the scene, drove alone to the crash site on a truck that didn't have Forward Looking Infrared, a sensor that detects body heat. By that time, her teammates had poured a layer of flame-suppressing foam over the site and over Ye's body.
According to the station, it was Duckett's fire truck, Mobile 37, that killed the young girl.
The San Francisco Fire Department berated ABC7 for releasing Duckett's name during an ongoing investigation. The veteran firefighter was reportedly offered counseling after the department informed her about her role in the young girl's death.
"Out of respect for the family of Ye Mengyuan and the investigative processes, the department will await the outcome of the investigations prior to commenting any further about the accident," the department said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/asiana-victim-properly-cared-firefighters-killed-fire-truck-lawyer-article-1.1410562#ixzz2aHBJU6rW
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BY CAROL KURUVILLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013, 12:16 PM
Ye Mengyuan was a 16-year-old student from Jiangshan city in eastern China's Zhejiang province. She was a champion athlete who excelled at literature, playing the piano, singing and public speaking. Her given name means "wish come true" in Chinese. Ye was one of three victims of the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco.
"Multiple" firefighters knew that an Asiana Flight 214 victim had been extracted from the plane and placed in a dangerous spot before she was killed by a speeding fire truck, her family's lawyer said.
Sixteen-year-old Ye Mengyuan was "left unattended and not properly protected, tended to or properly cared for," attorney Anthony Tarricone, of Kreindler & Kreindler, told the San Jose Mercury News. "She did not have fatal injuries or injuries that would have resulted in death before she was run over by that truck."
The Chinese teenager was seated near the back of the incoming Boeing 777 when it slammed into a seawall at the San Francisco International Airport. Her foam-covered body was later discovered near the front of the plane's left wing. Investigators have not explained how the young girl ended up at the front of the wrecked plane, but they have confirmed that she was alive before a fire truck ran her over.
According to a report by ABC7, a San Francisco firefighter pulled Ye from the burning plane during the chaos of the rescue effort. The unidentified firefighter then placed the girl near the wing.
"We know that multiple firefighters knew she was there, and she was left there to fend for herself before the foam was put down," Tarricone told Mercury News.
Forty-nine-year-old Elyse Duckett, a firefighter who was late to the scene, drove alone to the crash site on a truck that didn't have Forward Looking Infrared, a sensor that detects body heat. By that time, her teammates had poured a layer of flame-suppressing foam over the site and over Ye's body.
According to the station, it was Duckett's fire truck, Mobile 37, that killed the young girl.
The San Francisco Fire Department berated ABC7 for releasing Duckett's name during an ongoing investigation. The veteran firefighter was reportedly offered counseling after the department informed her about her role in the young girl's death.
"Out of respect for the family of Ye Mengyuan and the investigative processes, the department will await the outcome of the investigations prior to commenting any further about the accident," the department said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/asiana-victim-properly-cared-firefighters-killed-fire-truck-lawyer-article-1.1410562#ixzz2aHBJU6rW
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So are they going to sue for what she could've been?
Sadly sometimes poop happens and humans are not perfect but in todays world every little thing is about how much you can sue for.
We have a lot to learn about the response. I'm sure that the fire department has an incident pre-plan, but I don't know what it is. I am very curious as to why a firefighter would respond alone, & then take a position close to the airplane. Eventually, there will be enough information to fill a book.
Neal
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The ABC7 News I-Team has learned exclusive new details about what that lead to the death of the 16-year-old Chinese student run over by a fire truck after the Asiana Airlines crash. It is a case of a veteran firefighter trying to do the right thing, and having something horrible happen.
The story is so sensitive, long-time police and fire sources don't want to appear on camera -- even when they praise the firefighter, who drove the truck that hit the girl.
Forty-nine-year-old Elyse Duckett is known as a sharp, competent veteran of the fire department. Sources say several problems occurred, including those by other firefighters and top brass, which contributed to the tragic accident.
Duckett has been in the spotlight before -- in an award-winning documentary that mentions her career as a San Francisco firefighter.
Working out of the "crash house" -- station No. 2, right at the intersection of the runways, Duckett prepared 24 years for that day.
But, as her colleagues rushed to the crash site, sources tell say Duckett was out buying food for the firehouse . She came back to Station No. 2 to find everyone gone.
She jumped in a reserve Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) truck, Mobile 37.
Issue No 1: Sources say she drove by herself with no rider or spotter to help navigate. Department policy is to have two firefighters in the truck when fully staffed, but solo driving is allowed in an emergency.
Duckett's fellow firefighters beat back the flames and boarded the aircraft, rescuing passengers.
"There were two non-ambulatory patients that we put on backboards, and one other person was basically just taken out of the plane," Emmons said.
Sources say a firefighter carried 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan from the back of the plane and left her near the left wing, a hazardous place as the huge ARFF rigs jockeyed to fight the fire.
Issue No. 2: Whether the firefighter thought the girl was alive or dead, multiple sources say he should have gotten her to a safer spot.
"There was in the area where the victim was found a blanket of foam that was applied to suppress the fire on the aircraft," San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said in a July 19 press conference.
The fire chief says a blanket of foam may have covered the girl, and Mobile 37, the truck Duckett was driving, did not have Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) that can pick up a person's heat signature through fog, darkness, or even foam.
"And it reflects that on a screen in various shades of white or gray," San Francisco Fire Assistant Deputy Chief Dale Carnes said.
Issue No. 3: Carnes says his three frontline ARFF rigs have FLIR, but not reserve unit Mobile 37, even though the Federal Aviation Administration has funding available to retrofit rigs like it.
"As far as our reserve pieces, because we use them so rarely, it just hasn't been done," Carnes said.
Sources confirm the department told Duckett this week that it was the truck she was driving that rolled over Ye Meng Yuan and they offered her counseling.
The San Mateo County Coroner reported the girl died of blunt force injuries consistent with being run over.
"Those injuries she received, she was alive at the time," Robert Foucrault said in a July 19 press conference.
Multiple views of a simulation Asiana flight 777
Seems to me they should thank Boeing for building a plane that got most of them home intact.