UPDATE The father of the only survivor of the Airbus A310 crash into the Indian Ocean said his daughter got away with several burns and a broken clavicle, according to CNN. "She didn't feel a thing. She found herself in water", Kassim Bakari declared for a French radio station. "She managed to hold on to a piece of something", he added.
Teen Baya, living in Marseille, manage to survive the crash with only several cuts, knee burns and a broken clavicle, after the aircraft, property of Yemenia company", crashed in the Indian Ocean, while it tried to land on Moroni airport.
A surgeon from Moroni hospital, Ben Imani, told Reuters the young girl was "out of danger. She is very calm given the shock she suffered".
The teen's father said that his daughter and wife flew to Comoro Islands to visit relatives. "When I had her on the phone, I asked her what happened and she said, 'Daddy, I don't know what happened, but the plane fell into the water and I found myself in the water ... surrounded by darkness. I could not see anyone,'" Bakari said.
One member of the rescue teams declared for French Radio Station Europe 1 that the girl was spotted in the ocean waters, next to the dead bodies and plane debris, two hours after the plane had crashed. We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her," the rescuer said, according to AFP. According to him, she was continuously shaking. She was covered in blankets and given warm, sweetened water".
Bakari told reporters he had no hope in seeing either his daughter or wife after learning about the accident. "She is a very, very shy girl. I would never have thought she would have survived like this. I can't say that it's a miracle, I can say that it is God's will", he said. The girl was told that her mother was alive, in the next room, to not
