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Wed, August 17, 2022 | 20:33
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Flight attendants' heroic act lauded
"그녀는 영웅"…승무원 '헌신' 칭찬
Posted : 2013-07-08 16:35
Updated : 2013-07-08 16:35
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By Kang Seung-woo

Lee Yoon-hye, cabin service manager of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, speaks during a press conference at a hotel in San Francisco, Sunday. Lee and four other flight attendants helped all passengers and fainted co-workers get out of the aircraft that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport one day earlier. She also suffered from hip injury. / Yonhap
Lee Yoon-hye, cabin service manager of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, speaks during a press conference at a hotel in San Francisco, Sunday. Lee and four other flight attendants helped all passengers and fainted co-workers get out of the aircraft that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport one day earlier. She also suffered from hip injury. / Yonhap
Remarkably, 305 of 307 passengers on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 survived a crash landing, with only a small number being critically injured.

Without the cabin crew's quick actions, it could have been more disastrous, according to passengers and rescue service personnel.

On Saturday (local time) when the Boeing-777 crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport, the aircraft bounced violently on the tarmac with its tail coming off, and smoke started coming from the right side of the cabin leaving only four left-side doors available for evacuation.

Eugene Rah, a hip-hop producer, praised flight crewmember Kim Ji-yeon for her devotion to saving lives in the emergency.

"She was a hero," Rah told the Wall Street Journal.

"This tiny, little girl was carrying people piggyback, running everywhere, with tears running down her face. She was crying, but she was still so calm and helping people."

He added the flight attendants on board the Asiana Flight got everyone off the plane as the smoke billowed inside.

San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White also gave credit to the crew, hailing them as heroic.

"San Francisco Fire Department chief calls Asiana 214 cabin manager a hero," Jenna Lane said on her Twitter account.

The cabin manager is Lee Yoon-hye is a flight attendant with 18 years experience said Asiana.

The Twitter user also said that Lee was one of the last people on board and only went to hospital on the medics' insistence.

The fire chief also told reporters that very well-trained crew maintained professionalism and composure (in the evacuation process).

"Flight attendants are trained for emergencies every year and as I was just focused on evacuating passengers as quickly as possible and extinguishing the fire, I had no time to worry about my safety," Lee said Sunday during a press conference in San Francisco.

During the crash-landing, she suffered from a hip injury, but found out about it later in hospital.

"I think I was hurt when the plane landed, but I did not know what the injury was until I saw a doctor."

According to the nation's second-largest airline, a total of 12 flight attendants including two from Thailand were serving on the aircraft.

But seven were knocked out due to the crash, leaving five including Lee and Kim to help passengers get out safely from the plane.

They evacuated the injured first and then took the unconscious co-workers out before leaving the crash scene.

"The flight attendants acted with composure in accordance with safety training and it led to a speedy yet orderly evacuation of the all passengers and cabin crew," an Asiana spokesman said in a statement issued Monday.

Meanwhile, Benjamin Levy, a 39-year-old venture capitalist from San Francisco who sat in a window seat near one of the wings, also contributed to the "well-accomplished" evacuation despite an injury suffered from the crash.

The impact from the crash-landing hurt his ribs ― he found out they were bruised ― but he helped to open the closest emergency door to him and helped other passengers ― reportedly some 50 ― get out.


"그녀는 영웅"…승무원 '헌신' 칭찬

'눈물 흘리며 동분서주' '최선임 승무원은 끝까지 비행기에 남아'

미국 샌프란시스코 공항에서 6일(현지시간) 발생한 아시아나 여객기 착륙사고 당시 승무원들의 헌신적인 대응을 칭찬하는 목소리가 이어지고 있다.

힙합 공연 프로듀서로 일하는 승객 유진 앤서니 나씨는 미국 월스트리트저널(WSJ)과의 인터뷰에서 한 여자 승무원의 '영웅적인' 노력을 전했다.

그는 이 승무원이 비행기 통로를 통해 부상당한 승객들을 옮기느라 동분서주하는 것을 봤다며 '그녀는 영웅이었다'고 극찬했다.

그는 '몸집도 작은 여승무원이 얼굴에 눈물이 흐르는 채로 승객들을 등에 업고 사방으로 뛰어다니고 있었다'며 '그녀는 울고 있었지만, 여전히 너무나 침착했다'고 설명했다.

샌프란시스코의 조앤 헤이스-화이트 소방국장도 사고기 캐빈매니저(최선임 승무원)를 '영웅'으로 칭하며 찬사를 보낸 것으로 전해졌다.

이 캐빈매니저는 마지막까지 비행기에 남아 있었고, 의료진들의 계속되는 권유로 마지못해 병원으로 향했다고 한 트위터 이용자(@jennalane)가 전했다.

소셜네트워크서비스(SNS)에서도 사고기 승무원들의 노고와 활약에 감사를 표하는 이들이 많았다.

특히 이번 사고가 그 규모에 비해 인명피해를 상당히 줄였다는 평가가 나오면서 이런 목소리가 더욱 높아지고 있다.

페이스북 이용자 스티브 코스그로브는 '14시간의 교대근무가 끝나갈 때쯤 갑자기 충돌사고가 났다고 상상해 보라. 당신은 침착하고 냉정한 태도를 유지해야 하고 다른 모든 사람을 먼저 내보내야 한다'며 '아시아나의 승무원들은 오늘 그걸 해냈다'고 말했다.

트위터 이용자 셰인 윌슨(@jayquu)은 '대부분 사람이 아시아나 214편을 걸어서 나왔다는 것이 정말 놀랍다'며 '비행기를 타는 사람이라면 누구든 승무원들을 한 번씩 안아 드려야 할 것'이라고 강조했다.
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