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A Californian businessman and his teenage daughter die in a plane accident in Panama. MOREINFO: The pilot of the small Cessna airplane also died in the crash which happened in a remote mountainous area near the town of Las Ovejas. A 12 year-old girl survived but is recovering in hospital. Businessman Michael Klein was chief executive of U.S. hedge fund Pacificor. SCRIPT: Rescue workers in Panama have recovered the bodies of American businessman Michael Klein, his teenage daughter Talia and their pilot after a small plane crashed in a mountainous forest region. Twelve year old American girl Francesca Lewis survived the crash but is suffering from hypothermia and has broken bones. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRIEND OF LEWIS FAMILY, INDIANA HOLFYS, SAYING: ''She's kind of in a dream-state. She doesn't know exactly what happened. She's kind of in like awe of everything that happened." (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRIEND OF LEWIS FAMILY, KAROL RODLER, SAYING: "Definately the girl is very traumatised and she's supposed to have a quick recovery... but definitely it's going to take time.'' Klein and the two girls were in Panama on holiday at his private island in the Gulf of Chiriqui. He and the girls left the island to travel to the coffee-growing region of Volcan. The flight normally takes 45 minutes but the plane disappeared from radar screens after leaving the island. The plane went down during bad weather but authorities are still trying to establish what caused the crash. Klein founded two software companies in the 1990s before heading e-mail service company eGroups, which Yahoo! purchased in 2000 for $450 million. Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri, Reuters.