Document Prepared By San Francisco International Airport And City's Fire Department

San Francisco airport and fire department officials said in an official report released Wednesday that a Chinese teenager who was struck by fire equipment following the Asiana 777 accident at San Francisco International Airport was dead before she was hit by the foam-spraying rigs. The report contradicts a report from San Mateo County coroner who had said she was alive until being hit by the vehicles.

SF Gate reports online that, according to the report released Wednesday by the airport's chief operating officer Tryg McCoy and Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Dale Carnes, there is "ample evidence" to suggest that Ye Meng Yuan was fatally injured when she was ejected from the fuselage of the plane on impact. They urge the NTSB to include their findings in its official report.

Coroner Robert Foucrault said that the city's conclusion that she was not alive when she was struck is "totally inaccurate." CNN reports that Foucrault said his assertion is an "unbiased review," and that in his opinion, the girl's injuries were "consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle."

Attorneys for the girl's family have recently released a video showing that several firefighters saw her lying on the ground prior to being struck by the foam truck, but that none did a basic check of vital signs.

According to the report, one first responder who saw Ye's body in the debris field near a wing at first thought she was a doll. The report says several others concluded that she was dead but did not move her body so they could devote their efforts to those who had survived the accident, and fighting the fire that had broken out on the airplane.

(NTSB image)

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