‘Miracle’ crash survivor is reunited with family Teenager meets father, siblings in Paris after 13-hour Indian Ocean ordeal
LE BOURGET, France - A girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back to Paris from the Comoros Islands on Thursday to the waiting arms of her father and siblings.

Bahia Bakari, 14, was brought back to France on the plane carrying a government minister and other French officials. The Falcon-900 jet with medical facilities aboard left the archipelago nation of the Comoros, a former French colony, and arrived at Le Bourget airport just north of Paris shortly after 8 a.m. local time.

Yemenia Flight 626 crashed Tuesday morning amid heavy winds, and Bakari, described by her father as a fragile girl who could barely swim, spent some 13 hours in the water before she was rescued.

'Extraordinary battle for survival'
Her father, Kassim, and several other members of her family met the plane in Paris. An emergency ambulance then took the girl to the Armand-Trousseau Children's Hospital in the east of the French capital.

"In the midst of the mourning, there is Bahia. It is a miracle, it is an absolutely extraordinary battle for survival," France's government minister for cooperation, Alain Joyandet, said at a news conference at the airport.

Bahia, the eldest of four children, had boarded a plane in Paris with her mother, Aziza, on Monday morning for a long journey via Marseille and San'a, Yemen, to Comoros where they planned to spend part of the summer school holidays with relatives. Her three siblings had stayed behind with her father.