sole survivor's father: "I can't say that it's a miracle, I can say that it is God's will."
The lone survivor, a teen named Bahia Bakari was ejected from a plane into the Indian Ocean en route to France. So far, lately, we have had two planes crash which were headed to France. Imagine falling out of the sky, barely able to swim, and hearing voices of people taking their last breath in the Indian Ocean. If she could hear people talking: Imagine others who survived and drowned, simply, because they could not swim. Truly a miracle.
CNN reports: "Passengers on the flight included 66 French citizens, 54 Comorians, one Palestinian and one Canadian, according to Yemeni and French officials. The crew was made up of six Yemenis, two Moroccans, one Ethiopian, one Filipino and one Indonesian."
CNN:
"The teen's father, Kassim Bakari, told a French radio network that his wife and daughter were flying to Comoros to visit relatives.
"When I had her on the phone, I asked her what happened and she said, 'Daddy, I don't know what happened, but the plane fell into the water and I found myself in the water ... surrounded by darkness. I could not see anyone,'" Bakari told France Info.
The head of the rescue team in the Comoros told French radio RTL that the teenager survived astonishing odds to survive.
"It is truly, truly, miraculous," said Ibrahim Abdoulazeb. "The young girl can barely swim."
Another rescuer told France's Europe 1 radio the girl was spotted in the rough sea among bodies and plane debris in darkness about two hours after the crash. "
The plane was not en route to France. The girl lives in France and was en route to Comoros. She changed planes in Yemen. She boarded a first plane in France.