Fire rig alerted to Asiana victim before running her over 16-year-old run over after warning, footage shows

The driver of the first of two San Francisco Fire Department rigs that struck a 16-year-old survivor of the Asiana Airlines plane crash in July was alerted less than 15 minutes earlier to avoid the girl as she lay on the ground, newly obtained camera footage shows.

The footage, taken by a dashboard camera aboard the rig and reviewed Thursday by The Chronicle, sheds new light on the circumstances surrounding the death of Ye Meng Yuan. She survived the crash at San Francisco International Airport, but died after being hit by the fire rigs, according to the San Mateo County coroner.

Several firefighters who responded to the July 6 crash have told investigators theybelieved Ye was dead and that they had concentrated on rescuing passengers and crew members who were still aboard the burning Boeing 777. No one has reported checking her vital signs, however.

The rig camera's footage shows that although the plane had crashed just a few minutes earlier, passengers were gone from the area where Ye lay crumpled, and at one point a firefighter walked past her without looking down.

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San Francisco firefighter Roger Phillips directs a fire rig around Ye Meng Yuan after the July 6,2013 crash of an Asiana Airlines jet at San Francisco International Airport. Firefighters had concluded that the 16-year-old Chinese girl was dead, although the San Mateo County coroner later said she was alive when the rigÕs dashboard camera filmed this image. less