One of the three victims of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash, Ye Meng Yuan, actually survived the impact before being fatally struck and killed by a fire vehicle, according to the autopsy report, the Associated Press notes.
Yuan, 16, was run over by a vehicle after the crash and the coroner said she was alive when she was hit by the truck. San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White called the death of Ye Meng Yuan, 16, a "tragic accident" that has shaken members of her department.
The girl and a classmate in China died in the aftermath of the July 6 crash. Another classmate died at a hospital July 12.
"There's not a lot of words to describe how badly we feel, how sorry we feel," Hayes-White said at a news conference on Friday evening.
Yuan's family was upset after learning the details of their daughter's death and wants her body returned to China, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said. "It was a difficult conversation," he said.
There has been no witnessed that have said they indeed saw Yuan alive in the area before the accident took place.
The National Transportation Safety Board has been interviewing passengers and first responders to the crash to try to determine what happened to the student.
According to the report, she was coming to visit Stanford University and then attend a three-week summer camp at a Christian school in Southern California. Her family has been in the Bay Area since last week, awaiting the coroner's findings on what killed her. Foucrault said the families are anxious to take the victims back to China for burial.
