Asiana Offers $10,000 Payout to Survivors of Crash

16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was killed following the crash of Asiana 214

中国版本 Chinese Version  Asiana Airlines has offered $10,000 to each of the surviving passengers of the July 6 crash of flight 214 in San Francisco.  Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said the proposed payout is not a settlement and accepting the money does not prevent passengers from suing the airline. 

“There could be situations when the money is urgently needed and this could reduce inconveniences.”

According to an article in the English version of the Korean Yonhap News Agency,  Asiana has proposed eight conditions for passengers to receive the compensation, which include an article apparently making it difficult for passengers to make lawsuits, raising concerns of more legal disputes down the road.

Surgeon Describes Asiana 214 Passenger Injuries

Neurosurgeon Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD told PBS that doctors treating passenger injuries for Asiana Flight 214 found a unique injury pattern.

“All of the passengers were in the sam type of seat, wearing the same type of seatbelt . . . we did see a number of spinal injuries and traumatic brain injuries as well as some profound abdominal injuries and extremity injuries. So it was a picture of polytrauma with an abundance of spine injuries and traumatic brain injuries as well.  Many of these patients looked much better than they imaged so we had people that were the walking wounded.”

First Responder Communication Failures in Asiana Crash

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According to a report on the ABC7-San Francisco website, a firefighter carried 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan from the back of the Asiana flight 214 airplane and left her near the left wing, a hazardous place as the huge ARFF rigs jockeyed to fight the fire. San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White says a blanket of foam may have covered the girl, and Mobile 37, the truck firefighter Elyse Duckett was driving, did not have Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) that can pick up a person’s heat.