THE teenage girl who was plucked from the ocean yesterday, the only survivor of an airliner crash that killed 152 people, was fortunate but not unique.

A teenage girl was plucked from the ocean today, the only apparent survivor from an airliner crash that killed 152 people.

A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean early today, a Yemen airport official said.