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Crash survivor arrives home.


A FRENCH official plane carrying a young girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemeni air crash today arrived in Paris from Comoros.

Fourteen-year-old Bahia Bakari was brought back to France on an official aircraft with the transport minister and other French officials.

It arrived at Le Bourget Le Bourget is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.6 km. (6.6 miles) from the center of Paris.

A very small part of Le Bourget airport lies on the territory of the commune of Le Bourget, which nonetheless gave its name to the airport.
 airport shortly after 8am.

An ambulance drove up to the aircraft, and she was expected to be taken immediately to a hospital.

The teenager had boarded a plane in Paris on Monday morning for the long journey to Comoros via Marseille Marseille
 or Marseilles

City (pop., 1999: city, 797,486; metro. area, 1,349,772), southeastern France. One of the Mediterranean's major seaports and the second largest city in France, it is located on the Gulf of Lion, west of the French Riviera.
 and San'a, Yemen.

The plane crashed before dawn on Tuesday in severe turbulence turbulence, state of violent or agitated behavior in a fluid. Turbulent behavior is characteristic of systems of large numbers of particles, and its unpredictability and randomness has long thwarted attempts to fully understand it, even with such powerful tools as , and she spent some 13 hours in the water before she was rescued.

The other 151 people aboard, including Bakari's mother, are presumed dead.
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Publication:Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Geographic Code:4EUFR
Date:Jul 2, 2009
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