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Bakari Bahia, a 14-year-old girl, survived 12 hours in the Indian Ocean after a plane crash that killed 152 others.

She tells of being "ejected" from the Yemenia Airways Airbus as it broke up:

"She felt nothing, and was found in the water. She heard people talking around her but saw nobody during the night. She was ejected. She was found beside the plane. I never thought she would get out like that. It?s the Good Lord who wanted it."...

She had climbed on to a portion of wreckage ? believed to be part of the plane?s cabin ? but kept slipping back into the sea while clinging on to part of it with her hands.

By the time a boat?s torch picked her out in the depths, she could hardly move.

"We tried to throw her a life buoy to hang on to, but she wouldn?t take the buoy," said one of the rescuers.

I had to jump in to rescue her. She was trembling, trembling. We put four sheets around her, and gave her hot water and sugar.

She'd a broken her collar bone, but she is doing well, the doctors say.

Full post as published by Althouse on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).