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Asiana Flight 214 burst into flames after crash landing July 6 at San Francisco International Airport.
Shocking footage showing the hair extensions supplier of the tragic Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco last summer has revealed firefighters did not realize a teen was still alive before they ran her over.
Never-before-seen video from a camera rigged to a fire truck shows emergency workers telling truck drivers to go around the body of 16-year-old Chinese student Ye Meng Yuan.
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Firefighters quickly moved into battle the blazing wreck which had come to a fiery halt on the runway.
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In their frantic effort to reach the downed aircraft, however, the rushing responders think she is dead and do not bother to check her pulse or see if she is breathing.
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Firefighters try and cut down the inferno by spraying foam.
Then - less than 15 minutes later - two trucks drive over the still-alive student.
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GRAVE MISTAKE: A camera aboard a rescue truck shows a firefighter directing the truck around Ye (highlighted on the ground) — 15 minutes later she would run her over.
The video released this week does not show the trucks actually running Ye over.
But CBS states the original footage, which reportedly does include that clip, is in the possession of Ye's family — who believe it could be key to proving who was responsible for her death.
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An eerie aerial shot of the carnage at the San Francisco International Airport.
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Her parents are suing the city of San Francisco, claiming that rescuers were reckless and poorly trained.
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Passengers from the flight are treated by first responders on the tarmac just moments after the plane crashed.
Ye was one of the three people to die in the July 6 horror smash after the plane misjudged its landing, while 304 other passengers survived.
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LOST: Ye Meng Yuan, 16, could only lay helplessly on the ground as firefighters did not realize she survived the crash before eventually running her over.
Officials initially claimed she was run over because she was hidden in foam that had been sprayed next to the downed craft.
But, as CBS reports, the recently obtained footage — and other video taken from helmet cams — seems to suggest otherwise.
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The charred remains of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco which resulted in 2 deaths.
"What the family wants is accountability," Justin Green, an attorney representing Ye's family, told CBS.
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An aerial photo of the wreckage shows the roof was totally burned off.
"They want to know why weren't the firefighters trained, why weren't the supervisors certified and why hasn't the fire department come clean about what happened?" he added.
The San Francisco Fire Department has not commented on the pending litigation.
But last month Chief Joanne Hayes-White appeared to defend her crew's actions by telling KPIX: "Our members that day had difficult decisions to make."
"One was visualizing someone that appeared to be dead versus going onto the burning plane with reports of people that still needed to be rescued," she added.
Investigations into the crash continue, with the cause currently reportedly being put down to pilot error.
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