Chinese state media identify the 2 people who died in plane crash at San Francisco airport

BEIJING – Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in a plane crash at San Francisco International Airport.

China Central Television said Sunday evening that the two victims were students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. It cited a fax from Asiana Airlines, which operated the plane that crashed, to the Jiangshan city government. The two students were identified as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia.

The airline said the two victims were 16 years old.

Of the 291 passengers on board, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China.