| Girl found alive 2 days after plane crash |
A 12-year-old girl has been found alive in the ruins of a light aircraft more than 2 days after it crashed into a remote jungle region of Panama.
The Panamanian pilot and the 2 other passengers - a Californian hedge fund manager and his 13-year-old daughter - were killed when the plane came down in bad weather on Sunday.
Rescuers said the survivor, who is also American, had multiple injuries and hypothermia. She was to be evacuated once the weather improved.
The bodies of Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, were found yesterday in an uninhabited region known as Las Ovejas, 270 miles west of the capital, Panama's civil protection agency said.
The wreckage was in a hard-to-reach site on the slope of the Baru volcano, at an altitude of some 1,070m (3,500ft), the civil aviation authority said.
Rescuers were giving medical attention to Francesca Lewis - a friend of Talia's who was on holiday with the Kleins - in a makeshift shelter, said Jose Henriquez, a prosecutor in the Chiriqui state capital of David.
Henriquez said he did not know the extent of her injuries or whether they were life-threatening.
"They're warming her, and we hope to be able to get her out sometime tonight to a hospital," Henriquez said. "It's raining and it's very cold."
Aviation authorities said the cause of the crash was not yet known, but RPC radio reported that witnesses saw the plane being buffeted by strong winds and flying at a very low altitude around noon on Sunday.
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