July 2, 2009 Lone survivor Bahia returns to France Play video

(NECN/ABC) - It is a bittersweet homecoming in France for the lone survivor of the Yemeni jet crash earlier this week.

Family members said the teenager is too traumatized to be told that her mother is among those who died.

Bahia Bakari's miraculous 13-hour ordeal ended after she was found by rescuers, clinging desperately to a piece of plane wreckage in the ocean.

A shy and fragile girl, barely unable to swim, she escaped from this disaster with relatively mild injuries -- a fractured collarbone and some minor cuts to her face.

Found suffering from mild hypothermia, her father spoke to his daughter by phone, telling reporters that she had seen the plane fall in the water, and found herself in the dark, hearing voices from others but unable to see anyone. And that she just grabbed hold of an object, and waited.

Bahia was accompanied by her mother, who died in the crash. But doctors, fearing for her severely traumatized state, told her that her mother was in the room next door.

In the aftermath of this disaster, many are now blaming the flight company -- Yemenia -- for failing to meet safety standards. The European Union has threatened to ban the carrier if faults were confirmed.

It was the second airbus plane to crash within a month, following the Air France disaster in June, where all 228 passengers died as the plane plunged into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Previously it was thought that one of the plane's

black boxes had been located, but that has now been denied by French authorities. What has been detected was the plane's distress signal.

Now, the hunt is on to locate those recorders, which are believed to be around 1,500 feet below the surface.

ABC's Sonia Gallego reports.