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Daddy, I couldn't see anything: Yemenia crash survivor speaks |
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By: Agencies |
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Date:
2009-07-04 |
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Place: Paris |
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The teenage girl who is the only known survivor of the Comoros plane crash that killed up to 152 people has described how she floated in the Indian Ocean clutching a piece of debris for 12 hours before her rescue.
Bahia Bakari, who sustained just a fractured collarbone and cuts and bruises to her face, told her father how she was thrown clear of the Yemenia Airbus A310 when it crashed in poor weather on Tuesday.
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Safe: Bahia Bakari lies in a stretcher next to her father Kassim in a plane, upon arrival at the Bourget airport, outside Paris on Thursday. | Earlier Kassim Bakari, Bahia's father, said that he had spoken to his daughter on the telephone. "I asked her what happened and she said, 'We saw the plane fall in the water.
I found myself in the water. I was hearing people speak, but I couldn't see anyone. I was in the dark.
I couldn't see anything. Daddy, I couldn't swim very well. I grabbed on to something, but I don't know what.'" |
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