photo:Bahiya Bakari miracle survivor...
A 14-year-old French girl named Bahiya Bakari appears to be the sole survivor the Air Yemenia Flight IY626 jet disaster. The Airbus passanger jet crashed just before it was due to land on the Indian Ocean island resort archipelago of Comoros early in the middle of the night.
Air crash rescuers plucked Bahiya Bakari, who barely knows how to swim, from the rough Indian Ocean seas off Comoros as she struggled to stay afloat in the middle of Yemenia Flight IY626 wreckage and floating passangers who had passed on.
The remarkable story of Bahiya Bakari, who has family from the southern Comoros village of Nioumadzaha, began with a flight from her current home in Marseillaise in the south of France. The Airbus A310 jet crashed 15 minutes before it was due to land in rough seas a few miles offshore from Comoros, a popular tourist destination off the east coast of Africa.
One of Bahiya Bakari's rescuers told France’s Europe 1 radio that Bahiya Bakari was seen swimming in an area of Yemenia Flight IY626 debris around 4:00 am local time Tuesday, not long after the crash.
“We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her,” the man said.
“She was shaking, shaking. We put four covers on her. We gave her hot, sugary water. We simply asked her name, village.”
“She is conscious, she is speaking.... but we are not asking her too many question as not to tire her,” said a local doctor, adding Bakari Baya was in the intensive care unit.
Reports suggest Bahiya Bakari was travelling to Comoros with her mother for a vacation. Bahiya Bakari had joint Comoros and French citizenship.
It's thought Bakari Baya is almost certainly the sole survivor among the 142 passengers and 11 crew on Flight IY 626. Currently in hospital, Bakari Baya was in a condition described as “not worrisome.”
According to the father of Bakari Bay, Kasim Bakai, his daughter survived after being ejected from the aircraft on impact with the water. He also said Bakari Baya managed to survive the rough ocean by floating with surface debris from the downed Airbus jet.
Kasim Bakari told French radio: "I have spoken with her (Bakari Baya) on the phone."
"When she was in the water, she saw no one in the night. Then she clung to something," he said of Bakari Baya's amazing survival.
"Given her condition Bakari Baya could be evacuated to France or Madagascar," Kasim Bakari said.
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