Did 4 year old Cecilia survive the plane crash?

— Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life - one that she doesn't otherwise remember. At only 4-years-old, Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.



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Relatives say the children managed to survive thanks to Lesly's deep knowledge of survival in the jungle, with its many inherent dangers ? including snakes, predatory animals and armed criminal groups. It took nearly 200 military and Indigenous rescuers with search dogs to track the children down.

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The youngest sole survivor is Chanayuth Nim-anong, who on 3 September 1997, survived a crash when he was just 14 months old.

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