BBC reported
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8129398.stm
The EU and France have both said they highlighted safety
concerns over Yemenia planes and said the jet that crashed had not
flown into EU airspace since 2007.
But no official cause for the crash has yet been found. Earlier
on Wednesday a French government minister in the Comoros capital,
Moroni, said that a detected signal thought to be from one of the
plane's "black box" flight recorders was in fact a distress
beacon.
'True miracle'
Ms Bakari, who lives in Paris with her family, was treated in
hospital in Moroni for injuries, said to include a fractured
collarbone and burns.
On Wednesday evening, she was reported to be flying back to
Paris in a French government aircraft.
French officials earlier said that she was 12 years old,
contradicting earlier reports she was 14.
Speaking from Paris, her father Kassim Bakari said she was
thrown from the plane as it hit the water. He said she clearly
recalled the chaos of her time in the water.
<!-- S IBOX -->
<!-- E IBOX -->
"She said: 'Papa, we saw the plane going down in the water. I
was in the dark, I couldn't see a thing.
"'[And] on top of that daddy, I can't swim well and I held on to
something, but don't really know what'.
"She's a very timid girl, I never thought she would escape like
that," he said, adding that she was "fragile" and barely able to
swim.
Mr Bakari recalled how he said goodbye to his wife and daughter
at the airport as they headed to the Comoros.
"I kissed them both, then my wife turned around, she looked at
me and she waved, and my daughter she didn't do anything, and that
was the last time I saw my wife alive, because my daughter... I
will see her again I hope, but for my wife it was the last
time."
French officials in Moroni praised the girl's courage.
International Co-operation Minister Alain Joyandet described her
rescue as a "true miracle".
"She is a courageous young girl. She really showed an absolutely
incredible physical and moral strength."
An uncle, Ali Abdou, who visited the girl in hospital in Moroni,
told the BBC she did not yet know that her mother had died.
She was scheduled to be transferred back to Paris for treatment
later on Wednesday, he added.
"She is conscious, speaking well, [she] is ok. She was joking,
she was chatting, we laughed together.
"It's a miracle. It was God's will."
