Getty An injured rider is transported as dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a CTA train ran head-on into another train that was stopped at a Blue Line station in Forest Park, Illinois, Monday, September 30, 2013. (Chuck Berman/ Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images) FOREST ...
Passengers who called 911 minutes after a Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco International Airport said not enough help had arrived and they were doing their best to keep the critically injured alive, according to 911 calls that portray a scene of desperation. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landed Saturday when it came in too low and too slow, killing two passengers and injuring many others as it skittered and spun 100 feet. “We’ve been on the ground, I don’t know, 20 minutes, a half hour,” one woman said in a 911 call released late Wednesday by the California Highway Patrol. “There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries, head injuries. We’re almost losing a woman here. We’re trying to keep her alive.” Another caller told a dispatcher: “There’s not enough medics out here. There is a woman out here on the street, on ...
