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On Saturday, July 6 2013, an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying mostly Chinese passengers crashed and burst into flames as it landed short of the runway at San Francisco International Airport. Two teenage girls were killed and more than 180 people were injured.

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The parents of Ye Mengyuan, a 16-year-old victim of last year’s Asiana crash in San Francisco, have launched a wrongful death lawsuit against San Francisco City and County.

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The Asiana Flight 214 crash last year that killed three young Chinese was probably caused by a mismanaged approach, investigators said.

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Asiana Airlines has acknowledged that its pilots failed to correct their fatally slow approach to a landing at San Francisco International Airport but blamed the maker of the jet, saying it did not automatically maintain a safe speed.

US transportation officials on Tuesday fined Asiana Airlines US$500,000 for failing to promptly contact passengers’ families and keep them informed about their loved ones after a deadly crash last year at San Francisco International airport, in the first penalty of its kind.

Firefighters responding to an Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco last July were warned about the presence of a teenage passenger who was later fatally struck by an emergency vehicle, new video footage of the aftermath shows.

The Asiana Airlines captain who crashed a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport in July told investigators he was stressed out and "very concerned" about attempting a visual approach ahead of the incident, according to documents released by US aviation safety investigators.

The firefighter who ran over and killed a Chinese survivor of July's Asiana airliner crash in San Francisco was unaware of the girl's death at the time and will not be charged with any crimes, a prosecutor announced.

The pilots of Asiana Flight 214 that crashed in San Francisco in July, as well as the airline, are raising the possibility that a device that controls the Boeing 777's speed may have malfunctioned.

Asiana Airlines, the South Korean carrier that suffered a fatal jet crash in San Francisco last month, reported a second-quarter loss bigger than analysts estimated as travel demand waned.

The supervisor directing firefighting at San Francisco airport after July's Asiana crash site was not told a teenage Chinese girl was on the ground, a report says.

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The overwhelming feeling was one of numbed disbelief as hundreds gathered yesterday for a memorial service for three Chinese teenagers killed in the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco last month.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it implemented the change "to minimise distractions during a critical phase of flight". In the past, two planes could approach the main parallel runways at the same time in clear weather. Domestic carriers can still do that, but air traffic controllers are now staggering the arrivals of foreign carriers.

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A fire engine that ran over and killed a 16-year-old Asiana Airlines crash survivor was not equipped with heat-sensing equipment that might have detected her in its path, a newspaper reported.

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The blackened wreckage of the recent Asiana Airlines crash-landing in the United States has brought back stark memories for people involved in an eerily similar tragedy at Chek Lap Kok airport in 1999.

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A Chinese teenager travelling on the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed in San Francisco died from injuries sustained after being run over by a motor vehicle, most likely a fire truck at the scene, local officials said on Saturday.

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Beijing's municipal education authorities have ordered the city's primary and secondary schools to suspend all overseas study tours organised through for-profit tour groups following the deaths of three mainland pupils in an air crash in the United States nearly two weeks ago, report said yesterday.

A group of 83 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight which crash-landed in San Francisco has filed a lawsuit seeking millions from the aircraft's manufacturer Boeing, their lawyers said.

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