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Article: Rescuers recall saving sole plane-crash survivor
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2009
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MORONI, Comoros -- Doe Cyrille and his crew searched for hours in
crashing winds and waves up to 16 feet high for any 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 of the crash. The other
152 people on board -- including Bahia's mother -- are presumed
dead.
In a handwritten report, obtained Saturday by The Associated
Press, Cyrille writes that the crew saw a girl "trying to get onto a
piece of wood or ...