Teenage Chinese girls killed as flight hits ground
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July 8, 2013, Monday
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CHINESE citzens were mourning the deaths of two teenage girls yesterday, killed when the South Korean passenger jet they were on board crashed at a San Francisco airport.
Chinese nationals made up 141 of the 291 passengers on board the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which burst into flames after it landed short of the runway, injuring 182 people.
The two girls were middle school students from east China's Zhejiang Province according to a preliminary report, Xinhua news agency reported.
The airline said that both girls were 16 years old. it said the information released was based on their boarding passes but their identities had not yet been confirmed by DNA testing.
Xinhua said the two were among a group of 30 students who were flying to the United States along with their teachers to take part in a summer camp.
Another group of 30 middle school students and six teachers from China's northern Shanxi Province were on the same flight, Xinhua reported.
According to the provincial education department, the students and teachers from Taiyuan No. 5 Middle School and Taiyuan No. 1 Foreign Language School were also going to the US to take part in a summer camp.
It has been confirmed that none of Shanxi students was injured, and they have all been in touch with their parents. Only one teacher from Shanxi had suffered minor injuries during the incident, Xinhua said.
As of yesterday afternoon, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco had confirmed the safety of 70 Chinese nationals and posted their names on its website.
CCTV urged survivors and their loved ones to post information on the online messaging system WeChat so they could find one another.
Social media users mourned the two girls killed on board.
"In a country of families with mostly single children, how can the parents take this?" wrote one microblogger, referring to China's one-child policy.
"Life is supposed to have just started for them," said another microblogger. "Who knew the journey of their dreams would become their last trip?"
According to a CCTV report, only a few of the survivors in the two student groups had suffered injuries.
"When the crash happened we felt we were done for. Equipment and everything was falling on our heads," a teacher from Shanxi told CCTV.
But "none of us was seriously injured."
A student surnamed Lin described darkness after the crash.
"There was dust everywhere and it was very dark. The air smelled horrible. Foam was gushing in and outside the jet," he recounted on his microblog.
"To be honest the first thing I thought about was to look for my glasses," he said.
Chinese nationals made up 141 of the 291 passengers on board the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which burst into flames after it landed short of the runway, injuring 182 people.
The two girls were middle school students from east China's Zhejiang Province according to a preliminary report, Xinhua news agency reported.
The airline said that both girls were 16 years old. it said the information released was based on their boarding passes but their identities had not yet been confirmed by DNA testing.
Xinhua said the two were among a group of 30 students who were flying to the United States along with their teachers to take part in a summer camp.
Another group of 30 middle school students and six teachers from China's northern Shanxi Province were on the same flight, Xinhua reported.
According to the provincial education department, the students and teachers from Taiyuan No. 5 Middle School and Taiyuan No. 1 Foreign Language School were also going to the US to take part in a summer camp.
It has been confirmed that none of Shanxi students was injured, and they have all been in touch with their parents. Only one teacher from Shanxi had suffered minor injuries during the incident, Xinhua said.
As of yesterday afternoon, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco had confirmed the safety of 70 Chinese nationals and posted their names on its website.
CCTV urged survivors and their loved ones to post information on the online messaging system WeChat so they could find one another.
Social media users mourned the two girls killed on board.
"In a country of families with mostly single children, how can the parents take this?" wrote one microblogger, referring to China's one-child policy.
"Life is supposed to have just started for them," said another microblogger. "Who knew the journey of their dreams would become their last trip?"
According to a CCTV report, only a few of the survivors in the two student groups had suffered injuries.
"When the crash happened we felt we were done for. Equipment and everything was falling on our heads," a teacher from Shanxi told CCTV.
But "none of us was seriously injured."
A student surnamed Lin described darkness after the crash.
"There was dust everywhere and it was very dark. The air smelled horrible. Foam was gushing in and outside the jet," he recounted on his microblog.
"To be honest the first thing I thought about was to look for my glasses," he said.
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