Bahia was only 14 when her plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, the flame, water and wreckage took the lives of every other passenger on the plane, including her mother.
She had no life jacket and poor swimming skills, but she held herself above the vengeful ocean by clinging on to a chunk of the plane for over nine hours before being rescued.
She was flown back to what remained of her family and was an instant headline for surviving the deadliest sole-survivor crash since the dawn of aviation.