Crash - Miracle Girl Walks Out Unhurt.

(From Vanguard (Nigeria) - AAGM)

Byline: Emeka Mamah, Rotimi Ajayi & Ben Aganda

A SURVIVOR of Sunday's ADC plane crash initially counted among the dead is alive and kicking.

Miss Esther Amoda, an NYSC member at the Sokoto Airport and daughter of renowned political scientist, Professor Moyibi Amoda, was the first to escape from the ill-fated plane unaided.

She found her way to a private hospital in Abuja for treatment after which she was advised to show her face to the appropriate quarters for proper documentation. But by then, she had been listed as one of the dead.

Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State whose three daughters survived the crash, yesterday, described the escape as wonderful and marvelous.

Meanwhile, the authorities of the National Hospital have set stringent conditions for the release of the corpses of the accident victims, while 18 more corpses arrived Sokoto yesterday but without that of Deputy Governor Garba Mohammed.

Esther's father, Prof Amoda, told …