Taxpayers fork out for teen's rescue
By Tanalee Smith | China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-18 07:54
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Sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland poses at the door of the so-called "rescued room" in the port of Port aux Francais, on the Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean. Rescuers from France and Australia saved the young American from her damaged yacht in the ocean. Loic Bourc'his / TAAF / Associated Press |
ADELAIDE, Australia - The first day 16-year-old Abby Sunderland was stranded in the Southern Ocean, Australia's rescue agency chartered a jet to fly over the area where her emergency beacon was activated.
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