CBS video shows chaos when crash survivor run over

Exclusive video obtained by CBS News sheds light on the mystery of why a fire truck ran over a teenager who had escaped alive from the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines crash.

Part of the video, CBS reported, came from a camera on a firefighters helmet and was given to CBS a source close to the family of Ye Meng Yuan, 16, who a coroners report says was alive as she lay on the ground amid the chaos of the rescue. Other footage came from a camera on a fire truck.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop, a firefighter is heard telling the driver of a fire truck. There's a body right there, right in front of you.

About 15 minutes later, CBS reported, Ye was run over by that truck. Her body was run over again by another truck minutes later, the video showed.

CBS reported One lieutenant told crash investigators she made a three-second visual assessment and thought, That's our first casualty but did not check the girl's vital signs.

Ye and two other people aboard the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 last summer arriving from Seoul to San Francisco died from the crash while 304 people survived. Yes parents have filed a lawsuit against the city, contending the rescuers were badly trained.

Foam sprayed at the plane did partially cover Yes body on the ground, CBS said.

Justin Green, an attorney who represents Yes family, was quoted by CBC as saying, Why weren't the firefighters trained, why weren't the supervisors certified and why hasn't the fire department come clean about what happened?

San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White told CBS local affiliate KPIX last month:

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.

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