- A new video of Asiana plane crash shows firefighters spotting girl on ground
- Video shows firefighters failed to save Chinese girl, her family’s attorney says
- “The video … shows at least five firefighters who saw her,” attorney says
- Video challenges city’s account the girl was concealed by firefighting foam
(CNN) — A new video of last year’s Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco shows firefighters spotting a 16-year-old Chinese girl lying on the ground, but failing to help her, an attorney for the girl’s family charges.
Ye Meng Yuan was later run over by two different fire trucks, killing her, said Justin Green, a lawyer for the girl’s family.
The newly released video challenges an account by fire officials that the Chinese teenager was accidentally run over because she may have been covered in firefighting foam, Green asserts.
In fact, the video depicts one firefighter alerting a truck driver about how “there’s a body right there.”
In the footage, a firefighter stops an emergency vehicle racing toward the scene.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, stop, stop! There’s a body … there’s a body right there. Right in front of you,” the firefighter told the driver.
The video was captured on a camera attached to a firefighter’s helmet and first aired by CBS. Another video from a fire truck shows a firefighter on the ground directing the truck around a victim, who was not covered in foam at the time.
Ye’s parents have filed a gross negligence claim against the city and county of San Francisco, arguing that the emergency responders who spotted Ye on the ground failed to save her life.
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