A picture of Wang Linjia, right, and Ye Mengyuan at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan, east China's Zhejiang Province. The two girls were killed in the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 at the San Francisco airport on Saturday morning. Their family members headed for the United States on Monday. — Han Chuanhao/Xinhua/McClatchy-Tribune, July 8, 2013
Firefighting truck spray water on Asiana Airlines flight 214 as it sits on the runway burning at San Francisco International Airport in this July 6, 2013 picture taken by a passenger of the plane.
d: July 7, 2013 Teen crash victims, Wang Lin Jia and Ye Meng Yuan, mourned on microblogs Wang Lin Jia’s still-active Weibo page shows her last messages on the micro-blogging site. One of the two confirmed victims of Saturday’s deadly Aviana Airlines Flight 214 crash in San Francisco, Wang Lin Jia, 17, was reluctant to say goodbye to her friends, she wrote on her Tecent Weibo page (a Chinese version of Twitter) days before her death. In one tweet, Wang wrote, “Maybe time can dilute the coffee in a cup and flatten the contour of memory.” On Friday, one day before the plane crash, she posted her last Weibo message in English. She simply said: “Go.”The other victim was Ye Meng Yuan, 16, who, according to People’s Daily Newspaper in Beijing, was a classmate with Wang in the same school. Mourners have left thousands of messages on the two girls’ still-active Weibo pages. Some are from their close friends, but most are from strangers. One wrote, “Little sisters, good luck on your road in heaven.”Judging from the replies on the two girls’ microblogging pages, Wang was the class monitor, a special position in the Chinese education system, something like a teacher’s assistant and was good at Chinese calligraphy and recitation. Ye was also a stellar student, leader and was a proficient piano player, her page indicates. According to another Beijing daily newspaper, the two students were among 30 high school students from Jiangshan School who were planning to attend a summer camp with a focus on visiting some of the most selective universities in California, such as the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. When Wang’s parents received the news on the death of their daughter, they hugged and burst into tears, according to the East Day news in Shanghai. Both Wang and Ye’s parents are in the process of completing the necessary paperwork to come to the US. According to the public relations department of Asiana Airlines’s base in South Korea, the two girls were thrown from the plane and killed upon impact when the plane’s tail hit the ground. They were believed to sit at the rear of the airplane; their bodies were found on the runway. East Day also reported the students onboard the doomed flight had just completed their first year of senior high and paid approximately $5,000 dollars to go on the 15-day-long camp. -
The dead were identified as Ye Meng Yuan and Wang Lin Jia, both 16-year-old girls and described as Chinese nationals who are students, Asiana Airlines said. They had been seated at the rear of the aircraft, according to government officials in Seoul and Asiana, and were found outside the airplane.
Two Chinese teenagers died in the incident and more than 180 people were injured, local officials said. In a tragic new twist, the San Francisco Fire Department said that one of the teenagers may have been run over by an emergency vehicle as first responders scrambled to the scene.
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The death toll from the Asiana Airlines Inc. plane crash in San Francisco rose to three as a girl in critical condition since the accident died yesterday.
The victim was described only as a female minor by Rachael Kagan, a spokeswoman for San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Kagan declined to disclose the girl’s name, age or nature of her injuries.
Two other victims, 16-year-olds Ye Meng Yuan and Wang Lin Jia of China, who were on their way to a summer camp in the U.S., died at the crash site. More than 300 people survived the July 6 wreck at San Francisco International Airport, the first fatal airline accident in the U.S. since 2009. It was Seoul- based Asiana’s first crash since a Boeing 747 cargo plane went down at sea in July 2011.
The San Francisco Police Department separately said yesterday it verified that a fire truck hit one of the two victims who died at the scene, as the fire department had suspected.
That victim was covered in fire-retardant foam, lying prostrate on the ground near the fuselage, Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman, said in a telephone interview yesterday. Shyy said he didn’t know which victim was struck.
“We do not know that the fire truck was the actual cause of death,” he said.
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