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Firefighter in Asiana rescue files lawsuit
A San Francisco firefighter accused of accidentally running over a passenger thrown from the wreckage of an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed at San Francisco International Airport filed a lawsuit Friday against the San Francisco Fire Department. (news.yahoo.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
My biggest question right now is: Did another vehicle run the kid over before hers did? If she was following another rescue vehicle closely on the way to the scene, there's no way she could have avoided hitting anything the lead vehicle ran over first...
the crash is one issue , the rescue is an other , lets not loose sight of that .
I agree with Joel; if them folks could have mustered all that experience that was on the flight deck and landed they plane as they should have been able to, we would not be having this conversation nor would the lawsuit have been filed. It is ascenine that 2 senior captains and a qualified FO could not make a simple VFR landing on a CAVU day.
with respect, must disagree. I do not think you can isolate the fate of Ms. Ye Meng Yuan from the actions of the flight crew. Considering that her seatmates had similar injuries, aside from head trauma, from which they did not recover, there is the a probablity that her similar injuries would have led to her demise.
It is not likely a coincidence that all 3 fatalities were sitting together in a cluster on port side of the last 2 rows of Asiana 214, in the area where the tail section separated from fuselage, upon violent impact with the seawall maybe a 1/4 mile short of the threshold.
There is strong possibility that the injuries sustained in the initial impact and destruction might not have been survivable, no matter what the rescuers did or didn't do, AA they fought the fire. Having one's head or ribcage run over by a fire truck's wheel makes the outcome immediately much more certain, but didn't necessarily change the girl's eventual outcome.
The reason the girl looked dead when the firefighters approached was because she was either dead or almost dead from her injuries already.
The firefighters didn't risk their own lives to cause death but to protect as many lives and property as possible. Any regrettable death that occurs during the course of the rescue and fire fight is incidental and primarily arising from the initial botched landing.
It is impressive that more people didn't lose their lives in this violent crash. Such a low death toll is a testament to the structural integrity of the airliner, the training and quick actions of the cabin crew, the emergency response of the airport and city first responders, and the quality of healthcare available to the victims of the crash.
There is strong possibility that the injuries sustained in the initial impact and destruction might not have been survivable, no matter what the rescuers did or didn't do, AA they fought the fire. Having one's head or ribcage run over by a fire truck's wheel makes the outcome immediately much more certain, but didn't necessarily change the girl's eventual outcome.
The reason the girl looked dead when the firefighters approached was because she was either dead or almost dead from her injuries already.
The firefighters didn't risk their own lives to cause death but to protect as many lives and property as possible. Any regrettable death that occurs during the course of the rescue and fire fight is incidental and primarily arising from the initial botched landing.
It is impressive that more people didn't lose their lives in this violent crash. Such a low death toll is a testament to the structural integrity of the airliner, the training and quick actions of the cabin crew, the emergency response of the airport and city first responders, and the quality of healthcare available to the victims of the crash.
I see your point, but that's rather like a surgeon botching a critical surgery, losing the patient and saying, oh well, she was going to die anyway. If there's a fatal mistake made, someone's responsible.
Sorry, your analogy is not remotely similar. Using your botching surgeon scenario, replace the single patient in the OR with many patients presenting at once in a mass casualty situation and incorrectly triaging an 'immediate' case as 'expectant' in the DIME triage (Delayed, Immediate, Minimal and Expectant to die) before going on to the next 17 casualties.
Except the lawsuit is about one victim.
Sorry if I seem obtuse, but to which lawsuit and which victim do you refer? The OP is about the firefighter's suit to, IMHO, provide a bit of protection from scapgoating. I inferred from your 'botching a critical surgery' you were referring to demised young woman.
Will reply in a day or so. Catching a flight to Phoenix in the morning and will be occupied.