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2 Chinese killed in San Francisco plane crash identified
An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides.
(July 6) Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY 9:09 a.m. EDT July 7, 2013
Thirty-four people -- 29 students and five teachers -- from Jiangshan Middle School were on the plane that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday.
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Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16, were students at Jiangshan Middle School
Anxious parents gathered Sunday around the school gate
Of the 291passengers on board, 141 were Chinese
BEIJING — The two Chinese victims of the Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco were identified Sunday as teenage schoolgirls in eastern China, headed to the USA for a two-week summer camp.
Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16, were students at Jiangshan Middle School in Zhejiang province bordering Shanghai, reported China Central Television, citing a fax from Asiana Airlines, which operated the plane that crashed.
Of the 291 passengers on board, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China. Teacher Ye Lianjun told Chinese television that there were 34 people traveling in the Jiangshan Middle School group — five teachers and 29 students.
Anxious parents gathered Sunday around the school gate, said student Jiang Wenbin, 19.
"They are worried, and nervous, waiting for the news. They only have one kid in the family, so I understand them," Jiang said.
"One friend called me when he got off the plane, many of them are my good friends," he said before the two deaths were confirmed. "I am very worried about them, I wish them all safe."
The two victims' final postings on Chinese micro-blogging service Tencent Weibo drew interest Sunday.
On Friday, the day before the Jiangshan Middle Group departed Shanghai bound for San Francisco via Seoul, Wang Linjia wrote simply "Go", in English.
In another recent posting, she said the prospect of saying goodbye to old classmates left her overwhelmed by sadness. Wang often quoted from a modern fairy tale popular among young people for reflecting the joys and pain of growing up. On Thursday, Ye Mengyuan, whose personal name, Mengyuan, means "dreams come true", made her final post — "444444". The number four is considered unlucky in Chinese as it sounds similar to the character for "death".
Two dead in San Francisco plane crash
US authorities confirm 181 passengers injured after Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Seoul crashed while landing.
Last Modified: 07 Jul 2013 11:49
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US authorities have confirmed that two people have died in a plane crash at San Francisco International Airport, while the rest of the passengers have been accounted for.
San Francisco airport spokesman Doug Yakel said that 181 of the 307 people, 291 passengers and 16 crew, on board the Asiana Airlines flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea, were being treated in local hospitals.
The remaining passengers did not require treatment.
Peter Goelz, former director of the National Transport Safety Board told Al Jazeera that the engines of the plane would be carefully examined due to similarities with a similar Boeing 777 crash in Heathrow five years ago.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said that Yoon Young-doo, CEO of Asiana told a press conference that he did not believe the crash was caused by an engine failure or any other mechanical failure as the aircraft was relatively new.
China Central Television said on Sunday evening that the two victims were students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province citing a fax from Asiana Airlines.
The two students were identified as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia. The airline said the two victims were 16 years old.
Of the 291 passengers on board, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China.
Sequence of events
Witnesses said the tail of the plane appeared to hit the approach area of the runway, which juts out into San Francisco Bay, as it came in for landing.
The tail came off and the aircraft appeared to bounce violently, scattering a trail of debris, before coming to rest on the tarmac.
Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds, reporting from San Francisco, said that the casualty numbers were low because of the quick thinking of the crew who immediately deployed emergency slides and calmly evacuated the plane.
The Boeing 777 was supposed to land on runway 28 left at the San Francisco International Airport, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. Brown said the crash occurred at 11:26 PDT (18:26 GMT).
She said the sequence of events was still unclear, but it appeared that the plane landed and then crashed.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it is sending a team of investigators headed by its Chairman Deborah Hersman to San Francisco to investigate the crash.
Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, said that investigators were already on their way to the airport and that all flights had been suspended.
Images from television station KTVU in San Francisco showed debris strewn about the tarmac and pieces of the aircraft lying on the runway.
Among the passengers were 77 Koreans, 141 Chinese, 61 Americans and one Japanese.
The airline said it was working with relevant departments and agencies investigating the cause of the crash, and that it would set up an accident response centre.
The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more.
Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the US, and joined the Star Alliance, which is anchored in the US by United Airlines.
The crash on Saturday is the airline's first fatal accident in 20 years, when a Boeing 737 crashed into a mountain in the southwest of South Korea in 1993 killing 68 people.
