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Article: Girl's high-seas ordeal; Rescuers' story; Searchers found 12-year-old in waves up to 16 feet.(News)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2009
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Byline: Tom Maliti; The Associated Press
MORONI, Comoros -- Doe Cyrille and his crew searched for hours in high winds and waves up to 16 feet high for a sign of Yemenia Flight 626. Then they spotted a girl impossibly clinging to a piece of debris.
Cyrille, a merchant marine from Madagascar, had been heading with a team of rescuers toward a distress signal after the plane crashed Tuesday in the Indian Ocean off the coast of this former French colony.
Bahia Bakari, 12, was the only survivor. The other 152 people on board -- including Bahia's mother -- are presumed dead.
In a handwritten report, Cyrille writes that the crew saw a girl ...