Teen plane crash survivor recovers in hospital

(CNN) -- A French teenager was recovering in hospital Wednesday, one day after she survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands in which 152 other people are feared to have died.

The 13-year-old from Marseille escaped with just cuts to her face and a fractured collar-bone as the Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 tried to land at Moroni airport at the end of a four-stage flight from France.

A local surgeon said Bahia Bakari was doing well in hospital. "Her health is not in danger. She is very calm given the shock she suffered," Ben Imani told Reuters.com at Moroni's El Marouf hospital.

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