PANAMA CITY—Rescue crews in Panama found an American girl Tuesday who survived a plane crash that killed the other three people on board, including a wealthy California investor, authorities said.
The bodies of businessman Michael Klein, his 13-year-old daughter, Talia, and Panamanian pilot Edwin Lasso were found in an area of dense forest where the Cessna plane went down on Sunday, said air authority spokesman Victor de la Hoz.
The fourth passenger, 12-year-old American Francesca Lewis, survived the crash but suffered broken bones and hypothermia. She was being moved by land to a hospital, de la Hoz told Reuters.
The plane disappeared from radar screens on Sunday after leaving on a 45-minute flight between Islas Secas, in the Gulf of Chiriqui, and Volcan, a mountainous coffee-growing region.
De la Hoz said the plane went down during bad weather but authorities had yet to establish an official cause of the crash.
Fog and heavy rains had forced rescue workers to intermittently suspend their three-day search for the plane.
Klein, of Santa Barbara, California, was CEO of U.S. hedge fund Pacificor, which he bought in 2002.
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