Reply #5: What's amazing is that she's 14 years old [View All]

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/06/200963094817312298.html
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A 14-year-old girl has survived after a Yemeni airliner with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean.

The girl was plucked alive from the ocean after the Airbus A310-300 went down in stormy weather as it tried to land in the Comoros capital, Moroni, in the early hours on Tuesday.

"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical centre opened for survivors, told Reuters.

Some bodies have been found and there are no reports of other survivors, said officials from the air carrier, Yemenia, on Tuesday.

The airport's control tower lost contact with the plane shortly after receiving notification that it was coming in to land.

Three infants and 11 crew were among those on board.