Bahia bakari steven spielberg biography

Bahia Bakari (born 1996) is a French schoolgirl who became world famous as the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on June 30, 2009, killing all other 152 people on board.^[1][2][3] Bakari, who could barely swim and had no life vest, clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage, floating in heavy seas for over nine hours, much of it in pitch darkness, before being rescued.^[4] Her mother, who had been traveling with her from Paris, France for a summer vacation in Comoros, died in the crash.^[5][5][6]

Dubbed "the miracle girl" by the world press ("la miraculée" in French), Bakari was flown back to France on a private Falcon-900 government jet, escorted by French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet.

Arriving at Le Bourget airport, she was reunited with her father, Kassim Bakari, and the rest of he