I have a question on the San Francisco plane accident.

[diabeticman]

I don't want to sound rude or insensitive but my wife and I are trying to understand: How does a fire truck run over a victim? Was she under something that hid her from view? Was she in a blind spot for the driver?

To be ejected from a plane and survive only to die by the rescue team is well as my wife said "greek tragic like" (she didn't mean that funny or rudely she just was speechless before finally shaking her head and whispering that is Greek Tragic like...

[Betsy Ross]

1. Smoke? Nt

[diabeticman]

5. didn't think about that.

[opiate69]

2. I'm guessing there was a lot of smoke from the fire...

And lots of debris on the ground. Was probably an unimaginably chaotic scene to try to maneuver a huge fire rig around in.

[diabeticman]

10. From the accounts my wife and I heard we thought she had been thrown clear from most of the

debris area.

[malaise]

14. A DUer told me that one of the girls was thrown from the back of the plane

and there were some survivors in the water

[opiate69]

17. At the risk of getting too macabre ...

(Speculation only here. I haven't followed this story very closely)
If the plane was on final approach, the passengers would have been belted into their seats. I can imagine it might be possible she was laying on the tarmac, under the remnants of her seat and was therefore obscured from view (especially when all the other visual obstructions such as smoke are considered)
Either way, horrible tragedy.. but it's also possible her injuries from the crash were unsurvivable anyway.

[Posteritatis]

3. Large flaming disaster areas are chaotic places. (nt)

[BeyondGeography]

4. Chaos

The stewardesses and first responders did save many lives. Good account here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358429/Asiana-Airlines-Flight-214-crash-Police-officer-ran-burning-wreckage-safety-gear-flight-attendants-used-axes-free-victims-carried-passengers-safety-backs.html

[diabeticman]

7. Thank you for the link.

[tblue]

6. How can we know?

Obviously they didn't see her or didn't realize what they saw was a human being. It's awful, even for the driver Heartbreaking.

[diabeticman]

8. I know my wife was and I was shocked. We know it was a heart breaking scene but we just tried

to understand the accounts we saw which gave the indication she was throw clear and away from the plane and chaos.

[Warpy]

9. The area was full of dust and smoke.

It's unlikely they ever saw her.

[diabeticman]

12. Thank you. again we didn't want to sound rude but the account we heard seem to indicate she had

been thrown clear of the debris and chaos like she was some distance away.

[Warpy]

16. Well, the chaos was likely facility wide

as people in shock raced around trying to figure out if there was something they should be doing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. There was debris all over the ground, and a lot of smoke.

It's very possible the driver either didn't see her at all or mistook her for a piece of debris. A very sad accident.

[diabeticman]

15. It is terrible. Again my wife and I wasn't trying to be rude but we got the impression she was

thrown clear away from the chaos we probably got wrong info.

[Xithras]

18. No, she was only found about 30 feet from the plane.

There was some initial speculation that she either stumbled out of the plane and collapsed, or was aided out of the plane by someone else and set down. Either way, she ended up amid the already ankle high dry grass and debris about 30 feet from the plane. It's likely that the driver of the emergency vehicle, focused on the other injured people moving away from the rapidly burning plane, and in an area full of smoke and wreckage, simply didn't see her laying there.

[Jenoch]

13. When the final autopsy results on this poor girl

come out and if she had non-life threatning wounds before being run over, well that would just be even worse.

[PoliticAverse]

19. Human error followed by human error ? n/t