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3rd person dies from Asiana1 crash; another victim was hit by fire truck2
By Greg Botelho and Amanda Watts, CNN
July 13, 2013 -- Updated 0128 GMT (0928 HKT)
| A third person -- identified only as a girl -- has died from injuries sustained3 in last week's crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, officials at the San Francisco hospital where she was being treated said Friday. San Francisco General spokeswoman Rachael Kagan said the "minor girl"4 had been in critical condition at the Bay Area hospital since last Saturday's incident. The hospital didn't release any information about the girl -- including her name, age or ethnicity5 -- who died Friday morning, according to Dr. Margaret Knudson, the hospital's chief of surgery. "It's a very, very sad day today at San Francisco General Hospital," said Dr. Geoffrey Manley, chief of neurosurgery6. "We have all done everything we could." Two other people -- both 16-year-old girls from China -- were reported dead soon after the Boeing 777 crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport. One of those teenagers was hit on the runway by a fire truck, though it's not clear whether she was already dead when she was struck7, San Francisco police spokesman Albie Esparza told CNN on Friday. At the time, firefighters were using flame retardant8 that ended up surrounding areas immediately around the plane with foam, Esparza said. "When the truck repositioned itself to get a better aim of the fuselage9, they discovered the body of the victim in the fresh track from the path of the truck," he added. The foam was thick enough to cover a body, Esparza noted. Moreover, it is difficult for those in the "industrial-size" fire trucks that responded to crash to see things on the ground, the police spokesman said. "Right now, we are waiting results from the coroner to determine if she died from the crash or the fire engine10 going over her," the police spokesman said. "And that will be part of our investigations, like any other case, by our hit-and-run11 and major accidents investigations teams." Of the passengers and crew on board, 304 people survived -- 123 of whom walked away relatively unscathed12 and the remainder13 sent to hospitals. A handful of14 them remained hospitalized, including six patients at San Francisco General as of 3 p.m. (6 p.m. ET15) Friday. That hospital's figure include two adults in critical condition with spinal cord injuries, abdominal16 injuries, internal bleeding, road rash17 and fractures. Besides the passengers and crew members' physical recovery, San Francisco International Airport is working to get back to normal as well. The airport was shut down to incoming and departing traffic for several hours after the Asiana crash, which occurred around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Two of its four runways reopened later that day, though the charred18 remnants19 of the downed 777 remained -- a visible reminder of the horror that had unfolded. Early Friday morning, that airline's fuselage was hauled20 away on flatbed trucks21 to a remote section of the airport, said San Francisco International Airport in a press release. By 5:05 p.m., a Southwest Airlines jet landed on the runway where the crash occurred -- signifying that, for the first time in six days, all four of the airport's runways were operational. "The tremendous efforts and around-the-clock22 work of airport staff, government agencies, airline tenants23 and contractors allowed us to complete all repairs and safety certifications for Runway 28L in a timely and efficient manner," said airport director John L. Martin. While the wreckage has been hauled away, investigators still have not pinpointed exactly why Flight 214 crashed, or who was to blame. An in-depth review of the cockpit24 voice recorder shows two pilots called for the landing to be aborted25 before the plane hit a seawall26 and crashed onto the runway, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The first internal call by one of the three pilots in the cockpit to abort the landing came three seconds before the crash and a second was made by another pilot 1.5 seconds before impact, NTSB27 chief Deborah Hersman said. The agency has begun wrapping up its investigation at the airport and crews are cleaning up the debris28 left by the crash. Investigators turned the runway back over to the airport. The runway has been closed since Saturday's crash. The investigation is shifting back to NTSB headquarters in Washington, where authorities will work to find a more definitive answer about what led to the crash. The passenger jet's main landing gear29 slammed30 into the seawall between the airport and San Francisco Bay, spinning the aircraft 360 degrees as it broke into pieces and eventually caught fire. |
1 Asiana: 韓亞航空公司 2 fire truck: 消防車 3 sustain: 承受、遭受 4 the "minor girl": 小女孩 5 ethnicity: 種族 6 neurosurgery: 神經外科 7 struck: 撞擊 8 retardant: 阻燃劑 9 fuselage: 機身 10 fire egine: 消防車 11 hit-and-run: 肇事逃逸 12 unscathed: 毫髮無傷的 13 remainder: 其餘(n.) 14 a handful of: 少數 15 ET: Easeter Time 東部時區 16 abdominal: 腹部的 17 rash: 疹子 18 charred: 燒焦的 19 remnant: 剩餘物、殘骸 20 haul: 運輸、拖曳 21 flatbed truck: 平板車 22 around-the-clock: 不分晝夜 23 tenant: 承租人 24 cockpit: 座艙 25 abort: 退出 26 seawall: 海堤 27 NTSB: 28 debris: 瓦礫 29 landind gear: 起落架 30 slam: 猛然撞上 |
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