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Survivor of the Air India tragedy recounts how he got out of the wreckage: I crawled and...

2025-06-13 14:50:47Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh

Only one person emerged from the wreckage of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. British-Indian national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh , sitting in seat 11A, turned out to be the sole survivor of Air India Flight AI-17 1, which crashed just moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport .

The crash, India's deadliest plane crash in decades, occurred at 1:38 p.m. on Thursday.

The plane, bound for London Gatwick, crashed seconds after takeoff, hitting a multi-storey dormitory housing resident doctors at BJ Medical College in the Meghaninagar area. Among the dead were 229 passengers and 12 crew members. 

Meanwhile, the survivor has once again recounted the event and how he managed to escape, to emerge alive from the wreckage of the plane.

Speaking to the media from his hospital bed, Ramesh said the plane's lights began to flash and it looked like it was stuck in midair. 

While, at the moment of the collapse, he says he saw other people dying before his eyes, he confesses that he himself managed to get out by kicking in the collapsed door next to him. 

“ I still can’t believe I survived. For a moment I thought I was going to die, but when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realized I was still alive. I still can’t believe how I survived. When the plane took off, within 5–10 seconds it seemed to be stuck in the air. Suddenly, the lights started flashing green and white.

The plane was not taking off and was sliding in the air, until it hit a building and exploded. At first I thought I was dead. Later I realized I was still alive and saw an opening in the fuselage. I freed myself from the belt, used my foot to push the opening and crawled out. I don't know how I escaped.

"I saw people dying before my eyes, the flight attendants, and two people who were next to me... I came out of the rubble ," Ramesh confessed  .

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