A woman, who was 12 at the time, miraculously survived after the Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean with 153 passengers on board.
Bahia Bakari has lived through the worst nightmare of anyone who’s ever set foot on an airplane.
Bahia, now 27, from Evry in France, was travelling to her grandfather’s wedding in the Comoros with her mother when things went wrong, earning her the nickname ‘the miracle girl’.
The duo had boarded the Airbus A310 plane operated by the flag carrier of Yemen from the country’s capital Sana’a to Moroni on the island of Comoros off the coast of Mozambique.
Suddenly in the middle of the night, the passenger plane crashed into the dark ocean just moments before it was set to descend to Moroni on June 29, 2009.
Only Bahia survived the deadly plunge, but her survival was a close call as the girl, who could not swim, clung onto debris in …