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The sole survivor of an air crash which killed 152 people sat up in her hospital bed yesterday as details of her astonishing escape were revealed.
Bahia Bakari has lived through the worst nightmare of anyone who’s ever set foot on an airplane. Just 12 at the time, she miraculously survived after the Yemenia Flight 626 she was on crashed ...
When Bahia Bakari boarded Yemeni Airways flight 626 on 29 June 2009 with her mum, she was excited to land in the Comoros Islands to attend her grandfather's wedding. After boarding the flight from ...
At just 12 years old, Bahia Bakari clung to floating debris from the plane for 11 hours in the Indian Ocean before being rescued. She called it "a miracle." Now 25, she recently told France 3 ...
FILE - Franco-Comoran Bahia Bakari stands in a courthouse in Paris, France, on May 9, 2022. Bahia Bakari, the lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean, took the stand Monday in a ...
Bahia Bakari was just 12 when Yemenia Flight 626 crashed when trying to land in the Comoros in 2009 — Thomas SAMSON A woman who was just 12 when she survived the 2009 Yemenia Airways crash in the ...
Bahia Bakari, now 25, was just 12 years old when she became the sole survivor of the 2009 Yemenia Airways crash in the Comoros islands. Ms Bakari has sat through several hearings with her father ...
Thirteen-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the unimaginable. The other 153 people aboard Yemenia Airlines Flight 626 did not. She remembers the moments before the crash sitting next to her mother..
Bahia Bakari, the 12-year-old "miracle survivor" of the flight which crashed into the Indian Ocean, clung to debris in the water for three hours before she was rescued, her father said. Kassim ...
Bahia Bakari’s mother was among 152 people who died on the flight operated by Yemen Airways, which is now known as Yemenia. Composed throughout her testimony, Ms. Bakari cried as she mourned her ...
Bahia Bakari, the sole survivor of the Yemenia crash, pictured three months after the crash that killed her mum along with other passengers (Picture: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters) Bahia Bakari has ...
Bahia Bakari recounted her ordeal as a 12-year-old girl hearing screams, clinging to floating debris, and desperately hoping that her mother was still alive. Bakari’s mother was among 152 people ...