Túlélte a légikatasztrófát, majd elütötte a mentőjármű
Plane crash survivor killed by two emergency vehicles
A teenager who survived a plane crash died after being run over twice by rescue vehicles, an inquiry has found. Ye Meng Yuan was on the runway when she was covered with firefighting foam before being mown down by a truck doing the spraying.
‘Shortly thereafter, the victim (no longer covered due to the displacement of foam by the vehicle tyres) was pointed out to the fire attack chief. He had the body covered with a blanket,’ the report on Miss Yuan’s demise stated. The driver of the second vehicle that hit the teenager at San Francisco airport claimed he hadn’t seen her, although at least two others said they had and swerved to avoid Miss Yuan’s body.
Giving evidence at the hearing, Dale Carnes, of the San Francisco fire department, apologised for ‘the additional insult to the deceased’ but denied her death was caused by his team being ‘careless or callous’. A definitive cause of the Asiana Airlines crash on July 6 is yet to be decided.
Source: www.metro.co.uk
to survive – túlélni
plane crash – légikatasztrófa
to run over – elütni
rescue vehicle – mentőjármű
runway – kifutó
firefighting foam – tűzoltók által használt hab
to spray – permetezni, lefújni
displacement – elmozdulás
tyre – kerék
demise – halál
although – habár
to swerve – kitérni, elkanyarodni
to avoid – elkerülni
to give evidence – tanúvallomást tenni
to apologise – bocsánatot kérni
the deceased – az elhunyt
to deny – tagadni
careless – gondatlan
callous – érzéketlen
cause – ok
Match the words with the definitions.
1. to deny |
a) to make a car turn into another direction |
2. to apologise |
b) to tell the truth in front of a judge |
3. to swerve |
c) not to die in an accident, for example |
4. to give evidence |
d) to say something is untrue |
5. to survive |
e) to say sorry |
Answers: 1-d 2-e 3-a 4-b 5-c
