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Bahia Bakari, the 14-year-old survivor was visited by government officials in a Comoros hospital Wednesday. She was conscious with bruises on her face and a gauze bandage on her elbow.
"It is a true miracle. She is a courageous young girl," Alain Joyandet, France's minister for international cooperation, said at the hospital. "She held onto a piece of the plane from 1:30 a.m to 3:00 p.m. She has lost her mother. Her father arrives tomorrow." The girl's father told French radio that his daughter was "fragile" and could "barely swim" but managed to hang on.
Kassim Bakari said he spoke with his oldest daughter by phone after Tuesday's crash. Bahia had left Paris on Monday night with her mother to see family in the Comoros.
He said she was ejected and found herself beside the plane.
"She couldn't feel anything, and found herself in the water. She heard people speaking around her but she couldn't see anyone in the darkness," Mr. Bakari said on France's RTL radio. "She's a very timid girl, I never thought she would escape like that." Said Mohammed, a nurse at El Mararouf hospital in the Comoros capital of Moroni, said the girl was doing