Officials fined Asiana Airlines $500,000 on Tuesday for failing to contact the families of its crash victims last July. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

The Associated Press reported that federal officials fined Asiana Airlines $500,000 on Tuesday for failing to assist the families of the victims of a flight that crashed last July.

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Three people died and more than 180 were injured when the Boeing 777 crashed while landing in San Francisco. The flight carried 307 passengers.

The U.S. Department of Transportation claimed that the airline too too long -- five days -- to reach the families of all people on the plane.

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