Asiana Airlines said on Sunday it was offering an initial compensation payment worth US$10,000 to all surviving passengers on board a plane that crashed in San Francisco last month killing three...
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- Oct 4, 2013
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Asiana plane crash
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.
10 Aug 2013
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.
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7 Aug 2013
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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2 Aug 2013
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...
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1 Aug 2013
A Chinese professor who was seriously injured in the Asiana Airlines crash has filed a US$5 million lawsuit against the carrier in San Francisco federal court.
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1 Aug 2013
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...
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Families of the three passengers who died when an Asiana Airlines jet crashed in San Francisco three weeks ago have retained prominent New York law firm Kreindler & Kreindler to represent them...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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