Did a baby survive flight 401?

In the middle of the mayhem, Xiomara Casado miraculously found her two-month-old daughter. Little Christina was floating face up, cradled by luggage and debris, protected by a cage of mangled metal. She had a tiny scratch on her chest and one on her forehead that I did when I pulled her up. That was it, said Casado.



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The sole survivor of the crash was Cecelia Cichan, a four-year-old girl from Tempe, Arizona, who was returning home alongside her mother, Paula, father, Michael, and a six-year-old brother, David, after visiting relatives in Pennsylvania.

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All the remaining passengers and flight attendants exited the aircraft in less than 45 seconds. Every flight attendant suffered some injury during the evacuation, ranging from scratches to a dislocated shoulder. Despite extensive air and sea searches, no remains of the nine victims lost in flight were found at sea.

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The Air Mauritius plane, which arrived from Madagascar, landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on 1 January. Airport officers made the discovery when they screened the plane for a routine customs check. They rushed the baby to a public hospital for treatment.

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What objects were found among the wreckage? Primarily airplane wreckage, some personal effects, and a very small amount of unidentified human remains were found.

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Any plane debris there was mixed with hundreds of floors of concrete and steel, office furnishings and materials, and bodies — all of which complicated the case, investigators have said. Flight 93 wasn't lost to the crash. It was just buried, McCall said.

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Some airlines tell passengers to remove their shoes, because women's shoes could puncture the slides or women sliding down could collide with people in front and hurt them. ''We think for the most part the era of spiked heels is over with,'' said the director of the office of aviation safety at the board, Bernard S.

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