Now Saying The Only Surviving Passenger Is A 14-Year-Old Girl

Multiple news soruces are now reporting that the sole survivor from the Yemenia A310 that went down in the Indian Ocean Tuesday is a 14-year-old girl, not a five-year-old as originally reported.

Comoros Communications Minister Abdourahim Said Bakar said earlier reports that the rescued child was five were wrong.

"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical center opened for survivors, told Reuters. The girl is reportedly from a village in the centre of the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The International News Service AFP is also reporting the survivor is a teenage girl. "She is conscious, she is speaking.... but we are not asking her too many question as not to tire her," Ada Mansour, the doctor who treated the girl at the hospital, told AFP The girl was transferred to an intensive care unit.

Multiple news services are also reporting that the Airbus A310 that went down had been banned from European airspace, though Yemenia Airlines was allowed to fly to European cities.

FMI: www.aviation-civile.gouv.fr, www.yemencivilaviation.com/