Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Parents were on the airliner.

The parents of Wang Linjia are comforted by relatives of other students who were on Asiana Airlines Flight 214. Photo: AP

July 9, 2013
 
The two teenage girls (click here) came from China to visit Stanford and Google, and to spend three weeks learning American quirks and English slang at a Christian day camp in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles....

...Both girls were sitting near the back during Asiana Airlines' Flight 214. One - authorities won't say which - died after the tail snapped off and she apparently fell onto the tarmac. The other also ended up outside the plane, although it's unclear how, and she might have died after being run over by an airport fire truck rushing to put out the flaming jetliner. The girls' bodies were found 1.5 kilometres apart on the runway....