2 Chinese killed in San Francisco plane crash identified "444444"

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2 Chinese killed in San Francisco plane crash identified

An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides.

(July 6) Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY 9:09 a.m. EDT July 7, 2013

Thirty-four people -- 29 students and five teachers -- from Jiangshan Middle School were on the plane that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday.
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(Photo: Ezra Shaw, Getty Images)

• Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16, were students at Jiangshan Middle School
  
• Anxious parents gathered Sunday around the school gate
  
• Of the 291passengers on board, 141 were Chinese

BEIJING — The two Chinese victims of the Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco were identified Sunday as teenage schoolgirls in eastern China, headed to the USA for a two-week summer camp.

Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, both 16, were students at Jiangshan Middle School in Zhejiang province bordering Shanghai, reported China Central Television, citing a fax from Asiana Airlines, which operated the plane that crashed.

Of the 291 passengers on board, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China. Teacher Ye Lianjun told Chinese television that there were 34 people traveling in the Jiangshan Middle School group — five teachers and 29 students.

Anxious parents gathered Sunday around the school gate, said student Jiang Wenbin, 19.

"They are worried, and nervous, waiting for the news. They only have one kid in the family, so I understand them," Jiang said.

"One friend called me when he got off the plane, many of them are my good friends," he said before the two deaths were confirmed. "I am very worried about them, I wish them all safe."

The two victims' final postings on Chinese micro-blogging service Tencent Weibo drew interest Sunday.

On Friday, the day before the Jiangshan Middle Group departed Shanghai bound for San Francisco via Seoul, Wang Linjia wrote simply "Go", in English.

In another recent posting, she said the prospect of saying goodbye to old classmates left her overwhelmed by sadness. Wang often quoted from a modern fairy tale popular among young people for reflecting the joys and pain of growing up.

On Thursday, Ye Mengyuan, whose personal name, Mengyuan, means "dreams come true", made her final post — "444444". The number four is considered unlucky in Chinese as it sounds similar to the character for "death".





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