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Teen jet crash survivor 'didn't feel a thing'

Jul. 1, 2009
The 13-year-old girl who was the only known survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean "didn't feel a thing," her father said. She "found herself in water" and clung to a piece of the wreckage after being ejected, Paris-based Kassim Bakari told French radio RTL after...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler