BEIJING--the two people who died in a plane crash of Asiana Airlines at San Francisco International Airport were Chinese schoolgirls, Chinese State media said Sunday.
Mengyuan ye and Wang Linjia, the middle school students of Jiangshan in East China, died in the accident, State broadcaster China Central Television said, quoting a fax of the airline to the Government of the city of Jiangshan.
The South Korean airline said in a statement that ye and Wang were both 16.
A group of 29 students and five teachers had set off from the highly competitive school in an affluent coastal province of Zhejiang. A woman from the Department of education of Zhejiang had said earlier that they had lost contact with two students. The woman gave only her surname, Tang.
Of the 291 passengers aboard, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 students Chinese and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to the authorities of education in China.
The flight crashed into the runway upon landing at the airport on Saturday and caught fire, forcing many to escape by sliding down inflatable slides of emergencies when flames tore through the plane. Officials said that 182 people were taken to area hospitals.
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