11 Oct 2013

Infant survivor of Northern Marianas plane crash back in China

2:37 pm on 11 October 2013

The three-year-old girl, who was the youngest to survive last Sunday's plane crash in the Northern Marianas, has returned to China with her relatives.

Her mother - one of the three adult survivors - is also expected to go home as early as today - five days after the worst commercial aviation incident in the Commonwealth since at least the early 1990s.

The interim Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Esther Muña, confirmed last night that the child survivor had departed and the mother was in stable condition.

Another of the adult survivors is scheduled for orthopedic surgery today, while the other adult is also in stable condition.

The four survivors are Chinese tourists.

Three people died in the early Sunday morning plane crash on Tinian.