16 year old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland who was on a quest to sail around the world went missing about 24 hours ago, but she is alive and well thanks to a chartered airbus search plane. She had been feared lost out to see when a distress signal came through after a mast on her ship broke. The broken mast disabled her GPS communication device for her ship and everyone feared the worst as she was stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean thousands of miles away from land or civilization. It will take rescue boats