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Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777-200ER inbound from Seoul, struck a seawall short of the runway at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, tearing off its tail, spinning across the tarmac and catching fire. With rescue crews still arriving, injured passengers and witnesses pulled out cell phones and called 911, and many of those calls were routed to the California Highway Patrol.

The recordings later released by the CHP capture the confusion in the first minutes after the jet came to rest. One woman told a dispatcher she had been on the ground for 20 to 30 minutes and had not seen a single ambulance, saying, 'There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries.' Another caller reported that help appeared to be on the way but that there were 'not too many ambulances.'

The flight was carrying 307 people, 291 passengers and 16 crew, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Three of them died and 187 were injured, 49 of them seriously. Most of the passengers were traveling between South Korea, China and the United States.

Two of the dead, 16-year-olds Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were among a group of Chinese students bound for a summer camp. Both were thrown from the aircraft as the fuselage broke apart near the seawall. Investigators later concluded that neither girl was wearing a seatbelt and that both probably would have survived had they been buckled in.

Ye's death became the subject of a separate inquiry. The San Mateo County coroner, Robert Foucrault, determined that she survived the impact but was run over by a fire department rescue rig responding to the crash, and that she was still alive when the vehicle struck her. Prosecutors declined to file charges, calling it an accident. A wrongful-death claim brought by her parents was dismissed in August 2015 under a confidential settlement that paid the family nothing, according to the city attorney's office. The firefighter who drove the rig later settled a separate suit against the city for $250,000.

A third victim, 15-year-old Liu Yipeng, died six days after the crash at San Francisco General Hospital of injuries suffered in the impact.

In its final report, issued in June 2014, the NTSB placed the blame on the flight crew, citing mismanagement of the descent, the pilot's unintended deactivation of the automatic airspeed control and a delayed decision to abandon the landing and go around. The board said Boeing's documentation of the 777's automated systems and shortcomings in Asiana's pilot training had contributed to the crash.