Survivor of Crash Going to London

A 3-year-old Sudanese boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed 116 people will be flown aboard a medically equipped plane to London for surgery, doctors and relatives said Thursday.

The president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Zayed ibn Sultan al Nuhayyan, will charter a plane from Germany to fly to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and pick up the boy, Mohammed Fateh Osman.

The child, whose mother was killed in the crash, was in stable condition in a Khartoum hospital.

He was first treated in Port Sudan, close to where the Sudan Airways Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday.

Zayed, who left the Emirates this week for Switzerland on a private visit, said Wednesday that he would personally pay for the child’s transfer to London, as well as his treatment, the Emirates’ official news agency reported.

The physician monitoring the child said Thursday that his hospital had been directed to accept the offer.

Abdel Hadi abu Sabaa, a relative of the child, told reporters that he and a female relative would accompany the boy to London.

The boy’s father and older sister live in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum.

It was unclear which hospital in London the boy would be taken to or when he would leave.

Aviation experts have been studying the airliner’s data recorder and other evidence in a bid to learn what caused the crash.