Girl, 16, Survives Plane Crash, Killed by Fire Truck
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After Asiana Flight 214 crashed, hundreds of emergency rescuers rushed to the scene.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chilling new video obtained by CBS News, giving us a rare up-close look from a firefighter`s helmet cam.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It shows emergency responders actually being warned twice that a body was lying on the runway. And it was a teenager.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight, JVM investigates. Public outrage and yet another shocking video. This time of a plane crash. And it shows what happened moments before two fire trucks run over an injured teenage girl who`s lying there on the ground after being rescued, and later dies. That`s right. This 16-year-old girl, she actually survived the plane crash. It`s a horrific plane crash. And she`s lying on the ground near the plane, only to be hit twice by the trucks that were supposed to save her. The department originally claimed she was covered in firefighting foam and nobody saw her. But if you listen carefully, and please do, to the video, you will understand why critics are saying that is a lie. Listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop. There`s a body right -- there`s a body right there. Right in front of you.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: There`s a body right there. But that body was alive. CNN reached out to the fire department. We have not gotten a response. Here is my rant. These responders should have put this teenager, dead or alive, on a gurney and moved her out of the way the second they saw her. We just heard the audio to prove it. You can clearly see this is her, in the video. There she is, crumpled on the ground. They see her. They`re walking around. OK? Why didn`t they immediately move her out of this chaotic scene with racing vehicles everywhere, and gushing foam? It is easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, and I could never do the work these amazing EMTs do. And of course, a plane crash is an extremely stressful situation, even for highly-trained response teams like firefighters and EMTs. But I cannot imagine any good reason to have her not moved out of the pathway of the emergency trucks. Straight out to the Lion`s Den. I mean, my gosh, Jon Leiberman, how does something like this happen?</s>LEIBERMAN: Well, that`s a good question. Look, in this case, it appears that a lieutenant on the scene did what she describes as a three- second visual on the victim. Meaning that she looked at the victim, and she decided in her head that this victim was dead. The question is, A, was that following protocol, the fire department, and B, why didn`t she try and do CPR or the like? Now, once apparently, they decided she was dead, all bets were off. And then they focused on all of the victims in the plane. And they did most likely save a lot of lives by taking that action. But again, the question is, did they follow protocol in I.D.-ing this girl as being dead when clearly she was -- not clearly, but she was not.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: They saw her crumpled. They saw her crumpled on the ground. Now, they may have assumed, and they always say the first rule of journalism, that this teen was already dead. But the coroners claim she died from multiple blunt force injuries. That is consistent with being run over. Her family is getting ready to sue. They say the officers abandoned their daughter in a very dangerous situation and location. They could have moved her out of the way, or at least marked her location. Given that chaotic scene.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We`re heart broken. We`re in the business of saving lives. And many lives were saved that day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will say this. It was very, very hectic, very emergency mode at the crash site minutes after the airplane came to rest.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Straight out to the lines. I feel a little bad, because, you know, Simone Bienne, EMTs do incredible work. I could never do what they do. But you know, you`ve got it on tape there. And first of all, let`s take a look at this plane crash. Because it`s so extraordinary, to show you what the nervousness and the -- really, the anxiety and even the hysteria might have been when people raced to the scene, wondering how many people are dead. Look at it. Look at that plane crash. You`d wonder, well, could anybody survive that? So we have to put that in context. Because that is enough to make somebody actually not think straight, I would assume -- Simone.</s>BIENNE: Well, look, you know, put in that situation, it`s a fight-or- flight mode. However, you`ve got to think about the fact that these guys risk their lives every single day. So here they should have been able to keep their wits about them. I am no EMT. And I`m not a doctor at all. But my God, if there is a body on the ground, the first thing that I want to do is, is that body alive or dead? Don`t assume it`s dead. Can you imagine, Jane, the family, knowing their daughter survived? It`s a miracle she survived. And now the people who tried to save her, expected to save her, cost her her life.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: We don`t even know who those people are. There are those who are saying the city and those involved are stonewalling, because we`re not getting the names of the people who were driving the trucks. But on the -- I`ve got to say, my heart goes out to everybody involved. Again, it`s so easy to sit here in my armchair and say, well, you should have done this, that and the other. I might have been hysterical if something like this happened and I was standing right there. Honestly, I don`t know how I would react. On the other side, "The Bachelor," right now, the buzz off the charts for the ABC reality show. 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