COMOROS: Teenage survivor of Comoros plane crash is taken from hospital and whisked away on airplane, reportedly to France

Record ID: 574858

  • Title: COMOROS: Teenage survivor of Comoros plane crash is taken from hospital and whisked away on airplane, reportedly to France
  • Date: 2nd July 2009
  • Summary: MORONI, COMOROS (JULY 01, 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE NEAR WARD DOOR FRENCH DOCTORS WALK OUT OF THE WARD SURVIVOR IS TAKEN INTO THE AMBULANCE, HER FACE COVERED WITH A GARMENT AMBULANCE DRIVES FROM THE HOSPITAL TO THE AIRPORT VARIOUS OF PLANE TAXIING AMBULANCE ARRIVES AT THE AIRPORT, AS PLANE PASSES IN FRONT OF IT AMBULANCE NEAR PLANE, AS PASSENGERS BOARD VARIOUS OF PLANE AT THE AIRPORT PLANE TAKES OFF
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Comoros
  • Country: Comoros
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVALC1FT4ZCIJ0P0MQ60OBFZF3N
  • Story Text: The sole survivor of a plane that crashed into deep water off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros is boarded onto a plane bound for France.
    The teenage survivor of Comoros plane crash was taken from hospital on Wednesday (July 1) and whisked away on an aeroplane, reportedly to France.
    The 14-year-old-girl, a Franco-Comoran identified as Bakari Bahia was plucked from the rough seas off the islands after clinging to wreckage through the night.
    France said she would be flown to a Paris hospital.
    Doctors from France were seen at the hospital ward, at which the teenager was receiving treatment.
    They walked out holding someone, whose face was obscured, and boarded an ambulance waiting near the hospital door. The group then left for the airport.
    At the airport the ambulance parked near a plane which soon after took off.
    French military planes continued hunting on Wednesday for the flight recorder from the downed airliner, while hopes of finding any of the other 152 people aboard faded.
    The Yemenia Airbus A310-300 was coming in to land at Moroni, the Comoran capital, on the final leg of a trip from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen when it crashed.
    The airline said the passengers were 75 Comorans and 65 French nationals along with one Palestinian and one Canadian.
    The crew comprised six Yemenis, two Moroccans, one Indonesian, one Ethiopian and a Filipina.
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