Survivor speaks of Yemenia crash

A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink.Baya Bakari told her father at a hospital in Yemen that she heard voices around her in the Indian Ocean, but could not see anyone She was found clinging to debris some two hours after the crash.The plane, going to the Comoros Islands from Yemen’s capital Sanaa, came down in bad weather with 153 on board. Many of the passengers were travelling to the Comoros Islands but had begun their journey in Paris or Marseille on another jet operated by Yemenia, the national airline of Yemen, before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa.

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