Parents sue over death of girl at airport

The Chinese parents of a teenage girl who was run over and killed by emergency vehicles after an Asiana Airlines crashlanding at San Francisco airport have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the parents of Ye Mengyuan, 16, allege that firefighters and police responding to the crash were reckless and poorly trained and failed to properly rescue the teenager.

Ye Gan and Zheng Xiaoyun live in China. Their daughter was planning to visit Google's headquarters and Stanford University with her friend, Wang Linjia, 16, before traveling to southern California to attend a Christian summer camp.

Both girls were sitting near the rear of Asiana Flight 214 on July 2, 2013, when the plane clipped a seawall as it approached the runway, snapping off the tail. Wang also died along with another young Chinese passenger, Liu Yipeng, 15.

Ye was lying on the ground near the wreckage when she was run over by two vehicles. The San Mateo County coroner concluded that the vehicles killed her.

The lawsuit was filed in San Mateo County Superior Court. Ye's parents are seeking unspecified damages.

San Francisco city attorney spokesman Gabriel Zitrin declined to comment.