Plane crash orphan returns home

The nine-year-old Dutch boy who miraculously survived a plane crash in Libya returned to the Netherlands to rebuild his young life without his parents and brother.

The nine-year-old Dutch boy who miraculously survived a plane crash in Libya returned to the Netherlands to rebuild his young life without his parents and brother.

Ruben van Assouw, who arrived a military air base in Eindhoven in an air ambulance, was whisked away to a hospital in his home town of Tilburg last night.

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