SF plane crash: Victim may have been run over

Fire trucks surround the destroyed fuselage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as it sits on the runway at San Francisco International Airport after it crashed on landing and burned on Saturday, July 6, 2013. Fire trucks surround the destroyed fuselage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as it sits on the runway at San Francisco International Airport after it crashed on landing and burned on Saturday, July 6, 2013. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close SF plane crash: Victim may have been run over 1 / 20 Back to Gallery

An autopsy was being conducted Sunday to determine whether one of the two teenage passengers killed on the Asiana Airlines flight had been run over by a San Francisco fire rig at the crash scene.

The 16-year-old girl was found near the evacuation slide from the left side of Asiana Flight 214 that crashed Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport. The girl was not identified.

San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said Sunday that her injuries are consistent with having been run over.

"As it possibly could have happened, based on the injuries sustained, it could have been one of our vehicles that added to the injuries, or another vehicle," Hayes-White said. "That could have been something that happened in the chaos. It will be part of our investigation."

Hayes-White said a runway video recording of the first seconds of the crash could help unravel what occurred. "Part of it was a pretty good vantage point," she said.

San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said the girl did not appear to have suffered extensive burns.

The other girl appears to have died from injuries suffered when she was ejected about the time the tail of Boeing 777 hit the runway, he said. Autopsies, Foucrault said, were being conducted Sunday.

The dead girls, Ye Meng Yuan and Wang Lin Jia, were coming from China to the United States to visit Stanford University and then attend a three-week summer camp at a Christian school in the San Fernando Valley community of West Hills, officials said.

Hayes-White said 30 or more rigs carrying 225 firefighters and medics responded. Several fire trucks fanned out to douse the burning wreckage, and one crew led a hose line into the burning cabin.

"It breaks my heart that two 16-year-old girls lost their lives," she said. "I want to make sure that, just for everyone's closure, that the investigation is complete. The coroner will come to his conclusion."