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A twelve-year-old girl alone in the Indian Ocean - the only survivor of 153 people
A twelve-year-old girl alone in the Indian Ocean - the only survivor of 153 people
The ocean claimed 152 lives that night, yet one twelve-year-old clung to wreckage for twelve hours before rescue - how did she survive when an Airbus A310 carrying 153 people vanished without a distress call? What mixture of mechanical errors, human mistakes and ignored warnings turned a routine summer flight into a catastrophe?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from takeoff in Paris to the final minutes over Moroni, describing the flight, the weather, the cockpit actions and the unanswered…
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