The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Panama City

Rescuers in a remote, mountainous region of Panama were struggling to evacuate a 12-year-old American girl, the only survivor of a small plane crash that killed a California businessman, his teenage daughter and their Panamanian pilot. The bodies of Michael Klein, 37, Talia Klein, 13, and pilot Edwin Lasso, 23, were found Tuesday afternoon in an uninhabited region known as Las Ovejas, 270 miles west of the capital, Panama's civil protection agency said. The wreckage was in a hard-to-reach site on the slope of the Baru volcano, at an altitude of some 3,500 feet, the civil aviation authority said. Rescuers were giving medical attention late Tuesday night to Francesca Lewis - a friend of Talia's who was traveling with the Kleins - in a makeshift shelter, said Jose Henriquez, a prosecutor in the Chiriqui state capital of David who is handling the investigation.