[VID/PICS] Stewardess From SF Crash Rescues Passengers Despite Own Injuries
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea crash-landed at San Francisco Airport (SFO) at about 11:30 a.m. PDT. The SFO Fire Department has confirmed that 2 people have died and 73 to 103 are injured, according to Reuters.
By Sadho Ram — 07 Jul 2013, 10:51 AM — Updated over 10 years ago
PICS: This flight attendent was a true hero and guardian angel
She had a broken tailbone, she didn't fear the flames and she put the safety of others before her own. This flight attendent was a true hero and guardian angel. Amazing!
Image via 3news.co.nzStewardess from SF crash rescues passengers despite own injuries
Passengers saw (and one even snapped a picture) of Lee carrying other passengers on her back to safety. Sometimes, the people that were being carried were twice the size of the 40 year-old flight attendant.
Image via godvine.comWhen Asian Airlines Flight 214 crash landed in San Francisco, CA, a hero emerged from the rubble. The lead flight attendant of the Asiana Airlines plane helped many passengers to safety, making sure no one was left behind... even when she was hurt herself.
godvine.comCabin manager Lee Yoon-hye, apparently the last person to leave the plane, said crew members deflated the slides with axes to rescue their colleagues, one of whom seemed to be choking beneath the weight of a slide.
Lee described several dramatic moments in the remarkable evacuation that saved 305 of the 307 people on the plane that crashed Saturday while landing in San Francisco.
Passengers saw (and one even snapped a picture) of Lee carrying other passengers on her back to safety. Sometimes, the people that were being carried were twice the size of the 40 year-old flight attendant.
godvine.comOne flight attendant, Kim Ji-yeon, 30, put a scared and injured elementary schoolboy on her back and slid down a slide, said Lee, in the first comments by a crew member since the crash of the Boeing 777. A pilot helped another injured flight attendant off the plane after the passengers escaped.
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Lee herself worked to put out fires and usher passengers to safety despite a broken tailbone that kept her standing throughout a news briefing with mostly South Korean reporters at a SF hotel.
The San Francisco fire chief, Joanne Hayes-White, praised Lee, whom she talked to after the evacuation.
“She was so composed I thought she had come from the terminal,” Hayes-White told reporters in a clip posted to YouTube. “She wanted to make sure that everyone was off. ... She was a hero.”
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First photographs from inside wrecked San Francisco plane as black box reveals pilots desperately tried to abort landing
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators work at the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash site at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California
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Devastation: The interior of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, is shown in this U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout photo released on July 7th, 2013
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earch: Transportation investigators examine the inside of the aircraft as an inquiry into the crash begins
Image via dailymail.co.ukThe Boeing 777 that crashed at SFO's airport on Saturday was flying "significantly below" its intended speed and its crew tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before it hit a seawall in front of the runway.
dailymail.co.ukThe chilling photographs show seats slammed out of their rivets and oxygen masks dangling from the overhead compartments, giving some indication of the terror that the 307 passengers and crew experienced as the plane's botched landing killed two and injured 181 people.
dailymail.co.ukGALLERY: Asiana Airlines crash
Rescue: A woman is taken away from the airport's reflection room where passengers rested after their ordeal
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Press Conference: National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman, center rear, makes a statement during a press briefing on the investigation of the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport
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he Boeing 777 airplane lies burned near the runway after it crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport July 6, 2013 in San Francisco, California
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Grief: The parents (bottom) of Wang Linjia, one of the two girls killedin the crash, cry at a middle school in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, after being told of their daughter's death
Image via dailymail.co.ukSheryl Sandberg and her family were supposed to be on the plane
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted a status indicating she was at the airport but landed 20 minutes before a plane crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport. She was friends with David Eun, who took one of the incident's most powerful photos on his phone.
Image via nydailynews.comIn what appears to be a sliding doors moment, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she was originally booked to be on Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crashed and caught fire at SFO airport in San Francisco on Saturday.
After Flight 214, a Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines flying from Seoul, South Korea, crashed at the San Francisco International Airport, Sandberg posted a series of public status updates on her Facebook profile that said she and her family were nearly on the flight.
mashable.comHer posts received thousands of likes and sympathetic comments on Facebook, but some people on Twitter said they thought her update was inappropriate.
South Korean airliner crashes at San Francisco airport
An Asiana Airlines flight packed with more than 300 people slammed into the runway while landing at San Francisco airport Saturday and caught fire, forcing many to escape by sliding down the emergency inflatable slides as flames tore through the plane.
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As the plane approached the runway from the waters of San Francisco Bay around noon, travelers in the terminals and others eyewitnesses could see that the aircraft was swaying unusually from side to side and that at one point the tail seemed to hit the ground.
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Pictures posted on Twitter showed passengers jumping down the inflatable emergency slides and leaving the area, as plumes of smoke rise from the plane.
Fire fighters and rescue teams are at the scene of the downed Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which had taken off from South Korea's capital, Seoul. The cause of the crash is unclear.
2 dead, over 150 hospitalised, many unaccounted
News of the crash spread quickly on Twitter and the Internet in this wired city, with eyewitnesses tweeting their stories, posting images of the plumes of smoke rising above the bay and uploading video of passengers fleeing the burning plane.
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At least two people died in the crash, authorities said. About 181 people were taken to hospitals, most of them with minor injuries.
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More than 60 passengers were also unaccounted for, said San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White. It wasn't immediately clear where they were, but she said they weren't all presumed dead at this time.
Gallery: 2 die after airliner crash lands, spins, burns at San Francisco airport
Crews comb the end of a San Francisco airport runway following the crash landing on July 6.
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Police guard the Reflection Room at the San Francisco airport's international terminal, where passengers from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 were reportedly gathering after the crash landing on July 6.
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A helicopter flies above the wreckage on July 6 as people observe from across the waters of San Francisco Bay.
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A plane sits on the runway on July 6 while emergency crews tend to the crash site.
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National Transportation Safety Board to investigate what went wrong
As part of their effort to dissect the sequence of events, U.S. and South Korean investigators also are expected to examine if pilot fatigue or flight-control problems contributed to the accident, and whether air-traffic control instructions may have been a factor.
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Investigators will now focus on why the twin-engine jetliner —arriving on an overnight flight from Seoul and descending in good weather—slammed down hard on a portion of the airport hundreds of feet before the runway's normal touchdown point, according to industry and U.S. government safety experts.
An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.
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