Cliff Notes
- Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash, escaped from seat 11A and was hospitalized with multiple injuries but is not in danger.
- The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, carrying 242 people, including various nationalities, with 229 confirmed fatalities.
- Ramesh described a chaotic scene filled with bodies and wreckage, expressing disbelief at his survival while searching for his brother, who remains missing.
Air India plane crash: Only survivor thought he was ‘going to die’
The only survivor of the Air India plane crash says he thought he was “going to die”.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, managed to walk away from the wreckage. He was “disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body… but he seems to be out of danger”, according to a doctor who examined him.
There had been 242 people on board flight AI171 when it came down. Among the passengers and crew on the Gatwick-bound aircraft were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a doctors’ hostel in a residential area on Thursday, moments after taking off from Ahmedabad airport, in western India.