UPDATE 3-One survivor, three killed in Panama plane crash

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By Elida Moreno

PANAMA CITY, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Rescue crews in Panama found an American girl on Tuesday who survived a plane crash that killed the other three people on board, including a wealthy California investor, authorities said.

The bodies of businessman Michael Klein, his 13-year-old daughter, Talia, and Panamanian pilot Edwin Lasso were found in a mountainous area of dense forest where their small plane went down on Sunday, said air authority spokesman Victor de la Hoz.

The fourth passenger, 12-year-old American Francesca Lewis, survived the crash but suffered broken bones and hypothermia, he said.

"It's a miracle the girl survived because the plane was smashed to pieces," Roberto Velasquez, head of the government civil protection agency, told Reuters. He said her condition was stable.

Lewis was being moved by land to a hospital, de la Hoz told Reuters.

Klein and the two girls were in Panama vacationing at the businessman's private island in the Gulf of Chiriqui. Klein, 37, of Santa Barbara, California, was chief executive of U.S. hedge fund Pacificor.

The group's rented Cessna airplane disappeared from radar screens on Sunday afternoon after leaving the island bound for Volcan, a mountainous coffee-growing region. The flight would normally have taken 45 minutes.