31 Asiana plane crash survivors back to China
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Thirty-one survivors from the Asiana plane crash in San Francisco have returned to China. The 26 students and 5 teachers made their way back to Zhejiang province on Sunday afternoon.
Back in the arms of their loved ones...
These students from Jiangshan Middle School were hoping for an English summer camp in the US. Instead, they are reunited with family and friends after a terrifying ordeal.
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Students and teachers arrive at Jiangshan Middle School by bus in Jiangshan, east China's Zhejiang province, July 14, 2013. |
Worried parents watched the crash on TV and online, not knowing if their children had survived.
"It's good she's back. Life is the most priceless thing. She's back now, that's more important than anything else," a survivor's grandpa said.
Many of these children were seated at the back of the Asiana Airlines flight, not far from where the tail clipped the ground as it landed.
They know they're lucky to be alive... but whatever relief they feel at being safely home is mitigated by the tragic loss of their three friends.
"The surviving students were staying at the hotel, and almost everyday reading the news online, searching for information about their missing friends," said Ye Lianjun, teacher at Jiangshan Middle School.
The students will receive psychological counseling, but it will take time for them to fully recover.
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