Teen Plane Crash Survivor Speaks: “We Saw the Plane Going Down”

The 12-year-old sole survivor in the Comoros plane crash has told her father that other passengers survived the original impact when the plane went down.

Bahia Bakari’s father, Kassim Bakari, told French radio that his daughter was ejected from the plane into the ocean, and suffered a fractured collarbone and burns to her knee, but no life-threatening injuries.

Speaking to the BBC, he recounted his phone conversation with Bahia.

“She said: ‘Papa, we saw the plane going down in the water … I was in the dark, I couldn’t see a thing,’”.

“‘On top of that daddy, I can’t swim well and I held on to something, but don’t really know what.’”

It seems some others aboard the A310 survived the impact with the rough seas, at least for a while, with Bahia telling her dad that she could hear people talking, but in the middle of the night she couldn’t see a thing — she managed to hold on to a piece of something.

Bahia has apparently not been told that her mother perished in the crash — she has instead been told that her mother is in the hospital room next door. What do you think about the lie? Necessary to help her recovery or short-sighted and cruel?

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