Families are arriving in San Francisco to visit relatives in hospital after the Asiana crash. Source: AAP
FAMILIES of the passengers who were on board the crashed Asiana Airlines have started arriving in San Francisco to visit those who have been hospitalised.
More than 180 people aboard the plane went to hospitals with injuries. But remarkably, 305 of 307 passengers and crew survived, and more than a third didn't even require hospitalisation. Only a small number were badly hurt.
The passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Canadians, three Indians, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one person from France.
Asiana president Yoon Young-doo planned to leave for San Francisco later on Tuesday to visit hospitalised passengers, according to Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin.
Twenty-three South Koreans have so far left for San Francisco to visit their injured family members and relatives since the crash, according to South Korea's ministry of land, infrastructure and transport.
After the crash, three firefighters - and two police officers without safety gear - rushed on to the plane to help evacuate trapped passengers, including one who was trapped under a collapsed bulkhead.
They had gotten everyone off the craft except one elderly man, who was in his seat, moaning and unable to move.
"We were running out of time," San Francisco Fire Department Lt Dave Monteverdi recalled on Monday at a news conference.
"The smoke was starting to get thicker and thicker. So we had no choice. We stood him up and amazingly, he started shuffling his feet. That was a good sign ... we were able to get him out and he was pretty much the last person off the plane."
The two dead passengers were identified as 16-year-old students from China who were scheduled to attend summer camp in California with dozens of classmates.
One of their bodies was found on the tarmac near where the plane's tail broke off when it slammed into the runway, the other was found on the left side of the plane about 10 metres away from where the jetliner came to rest after it skidded down the runway.
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