Plane crash victim possibly run over identified

Ye Mengyuan is shown playing piano in this file photo.

The San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said Tuesday night that 16-year-old Ye Mengyuan was the victim who may have been hit by the rescue vehicle at the site of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash.

However, he had not yet determined Ye's official cause of death or whether an emergency vehicle struck her at all.

The San Francisco Police Department's hit-and-run unit is investigating Ye's death along with the National Transportation Safety Board, while the San Francisco Fire Department is conducting its own internal investigation.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said Wednesday that it has sent two specialists to the United States to track an investigation into Saturday's Asiana Airlines plane crash.

A total of 141 Chinese were among the 291 passengers aboard when Asiana Airlines Flight 214 bound for San Francisco from Seoul made a crash landing at the San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.

Among the 141 Chinese citizens, two were confirmed dead, one remains in critical condition and the other 138 were confirmed safe.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday it would increase the required flying hours for co-pilots significantly, four days after the deadly crash landing of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 commercial plane in San Francisco.

Agencies