Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros, killing 152 people, with French schoolgirl Bahia Bakari the sole survivor.

Yemenia Flight 626

2009 aviation accident near Comoros

Yemenia Flight 626 was a flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sana'a in Yemen to Moroni in Comoros, when it crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 am local time while on approach to…

Bahia Bakari

Sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626 crash in 2009

Bahia Bakari is a French woman who was 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 30 June 2009, killing the other 152 people on board. Twelve-year-old Bakari, who had little…

List of aviation accidents and incidents with a sole survivor

Presented below is a list of aviation accidents and incidents with a sole survivor, when the event involved 10 or more people onboard. Within this list, "sole survivor" refers to a person who survived an air accident in which all other aircraft occupants died as a direct…