Footage I Had Never Seen Of The Crash Of Asiana 214 At SFO

The original video posted to YouTube is still up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHYg3gleQzA If a moderator reads this, you may want to update the embedded video in the post. Also, it's sad that people get their news about aviation accidents from blog post comments. Read the NTSB's final report. The whole thing. No one was killed by a fire truck. The girl who was run over was one of the only people not wearing a seat belt and - unfortunately and accordingly - she was the only passenger ejected from the plane. That's how she ended up on the ground in front of the wing. After that, she - already dead - was struck (twice, actually) by fire trucks who didn't see her because she was covered in foam. The trucks were trying to put out a fire on a burning plane while firefighters were actively rescuing trapped passengers (just because you see many people running off the plane doesn't mean that everyone is off, and the number of serious injuries was tremendous). It was difficult to extinguish the fire (a) because planes on fire are hard to put out, and (b) because firefighters had to be very careful using their master streams. Why? Because there were firefighters making active rescues of trapped passengers in the rear of the plane. People were trapped. The girl had actually been noticed by firefighters - who didn't move her because they were trained not to move dead bodies, to leave them untouched for investigators - but she wasn't noticed by the drivers of the fire trucks because she was covered in a heavy, thick, layer of foam. Why so much foam right there? Because she was ejected from the plane and landed adjacent to a gushing fuel leak, the stream of which was likened by a SFPD police officer to a fire hose's water stream. The foam was to keep that from igniting and to keep the left wing from exploding. Firefighters also received erroneous reports a number of times during the rescue of missing passengers and missing flight crew. Each report necessitated cessation of the use of high power master streams, and repeated, dangerous interior searches of the plane. The firefighters were well-trained and they put that training to good use during this incident. There were also some serious deficiencies in SFFD's preparedness. That's always the case with mass casualty incidents. Those kinds of incidents are always going to uncover something that you can't really train for or predict. There were many lessons learned and those lessons have been put into practice - but none of them are things like "don't run people over and kill them." In fact, as hard as this may be to believe, there are only a handful of things which should be done differently if this incident were to happen again tomorrow. What the media did to those firefighters is sickening. (The girl's family dropped their lawsuit against the city. Although their attorney - blatantly lying to the media - claimed a "confidential settlement," there was no such thing. (The settlement was "we are dropping the case and you pay us no money.") How can we know that there was no confidential settlement? Because the City of San Fransisco is legally forbidden from entering into confidential litigation settlements. It's hard to believe that attorney is still permitted to practice law.

@Aaron This is Lucky's blog & that's something he or Tiffany can moderate. Where the 'jokes' originated is immaterial, they're insensitive at best & should be removed from OMAAT Let's post a few rape jokes next time a female passenger is assaulted or dragged off a plane & then tell anyone who complains to 'lighten up' because 'Lucky can't moderate everything'. I'd call BS on that response, too

@Aaron I can undestand Lucky can’t moderate everything but when I tried to post several other comments against LPPD, pranking Asiana and Korean they were never released out, please explain the reason other than picking sides

The teen run over was ejected during the crash. Wasn't wearing the belt, according to reports at the time. NTSB said she and another would probably both have survived if the belts had been worn. People who refuse to wear the belt 'because you mightn't be able to escape' are usually the first to hit the ceiling when unexpected turbulence strikes. Or go through the windscreen or decapitate another passenger in a car crash.

Lighten up folks - Lucky can't moderate everything! The jokes came from an NTSB Intern that sent the names to the local Fox affiliate who wet ahead and ran them on their news broadcast on live TV. (just YouTube "Asiana Flight 214 Pilot Names Prank" or similar and you will see tons of live footage from that day) Was that Lucky's fault too? Some readers are a bit to quick to cast down their judgement!!