Post date: Jul 08, 2013 10:0:37 PM
Safety board head says investigators are still reviewing surveillance video to determine whether one of two teenage girls killed in the San Francisco plane crash was run over by an emergency vehicle.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 8, 2013) (NBC) - Investigators are still trying to determine whether a teenage passenger on the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco was run over by an emergency vehicle, the National Safety Board told reporters at a press conference on Monday (July 8).
Asiana Flight 214 crashed on landing on Saturday, killing the two 16-year-old students from eastern China and injuring more than 180 other people."Approximately half to two-thirds of the way through the incident as we were transitioning from the fire attack and rescue phase into overhauling both the fire and aircraft and starting to concentrate on the treatment and transport of patients, it became aware to one of our fire attack battalion chiefs that there was a possibility that one of their two fatalities might have been contacted by one of our apparatus at an unknown point during the incident," San Francisco Fire Department Assistant Deputy Chief Dale Carnes told reporters.
Eyewitnesses and survivors have described a scene of chaos in the aftermath of the crash as emergency responders scrambled to aid passengers fleeing the plane.
But NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman said the student's cause of death has not yet been determined.
"The coroner has not yet determined the cause of death, and so we want to make sure we have all the facts before we reach any conclusions," said Hersman. "We are reviewing video, airport surveillance video, to understand also what happened, and I will tell you at least the initial read of the video by our investigators, they shared with me that it wasn't conclusive, so we really need to work and talk with people, conduct additional interviews, and let the coroner do their work."
The South Korean airline which operated the plane said the pilot of the crashed aircraft was still in training for the Boeing 777 when he attempted to land the plane under supervision.