Video shows error that led fire truck to kill Asiana plane crash victim

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.

The supervisor only learned she was there after she was mistakenly run over and killed by a fire truck, the said, citing a video it has obtained.

That was despite other firefighters having spotted the girl, driven around her and checked on her condition. They told other supervisors about her, but the San Francisco Fire Department supervisor in charge was never informed about her.

The video, which the obtained from an undisclosed source, was taken from a camera mounted on the helmet of the supervisor. It was turned over to investigators probing the death of Ye Mengyuan , a 16-year-old student from Jiangshan High School, Zhejiang , who survived the initial crash-landing but died on the runway.

Two other students from the school, Wang Linjia , 16, and Liu Yipeng , 17, were killed in the crash.

The supervisor who arrived at the crash scene and took charge was not immediately told that Ye had been found near the plane, leaving him powerless to prevent her death, the reported. The newspaper did not post the video online but published still frames of the footage.