Toddler Survives Plane Crash

**DarkPrincess** · June 30th, 2009, 08:19 AM

Rescuers were searching the wreckage of a downed Yemeni jet Tuesday after the "miracle" discovery of a young child in the Indian Ocean.

Relatives of passengers of the plane that crashed await news at Marseille airport in southern France.

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The child is the only known survivor from the downed Yemenia Airways flight, which was carrying 153 people en route to the island nation of Comoros from Yemen's capital, Sanaa.
The child was found in the waters and taken to a hospital, said Captain Abdulkhalek al-Kadi, chairman of Yemenia Airways.
"One child is alive and we hope to find more," the chairman said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...ash/index.html

**Kitty** · June 30th, 2009, 08:27 AM

Do you think it's plain good luck or is that baby destined for something big?

**Jessiesgirl1108** · June 30th, 2009, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Kitty

Do you think it's plain good luck or is that baby destined for something big?

I think luck had a big part of it...but it's definitely stories like this that make me truely believe in fate and that "when it's our time to go, it's your time to go"...and apparently it wasn't this boy's time to go!

**DarkPrincess** · July 1st, 2009, 08:05 AM

Now it's not a toddler, it's a 13 year old girl. I love when the news gets things wrong.

(CNN) -- The father of a teenage girl who remarkably survived a plane crash off the Comoros has described how his daughter was ejected from the plane into the Indian Ocean.

Relatives react at Marseille airport in France after being informed of the list of the passengers' names.

"She didn't feel a thing. She found herself in water," Paris-based Kassim Bakari told French radio RTL after speaking to his 13-year-old daughter Bahia who was recovering Wednesday in hospital in Moroni.
"She could hear people talking, but in the middle of the night she couldn't see a thing. She managed to hold on to a piece of something," said the Comoran, whose partner was also on board the doomed flight and is presumed to be among the 152 victims.
"She said she was ejected from the plane," Bakari said, according to Agence France-Presse.
Bahia, who lives in Marseille, escaped with just cuts to her face and a fractured collar-bone as the Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 tried to land at Moroni airport at the end of a four-stage flight from France.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...vor/index.html

**coffee achiever** · July 1st, 2009, 02:57 PM

Regardless, it's just incredible that anyone survived.

**Rockin Ma** · July 1st, 2009, 06:54 PM

A SECOND child may have survived the Comoros jet crash, doctors say.

A hospital on the main island in the Indian Ocean archipelago was put on alert today to treat the victim, doctors said.

"It seems that another child was found alive early in the morning. We have no detail on the victim because we have not seen him," said a doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The doctor said the survivor may still be with rescuers at sea.

Bahia Bakari, 14, is so far the only survivor among the 153 people aboard the Yemenia airliner that plunged into the sea as it came in to land at Moroni airport early Tuesday.

She is being treated in hospital in the archipelago's capital.

The French Government plans to evacuate her to France

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...rom=public_rss