A 40-year-old British man named Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of the tragic Air India plane crash on June 12, which killed the other 241 passengers on board.
Flight AI171 took off from Ahmedabad Airport in western India and was supposed to get to London Gatwick. Sadly, it crashed just moments after getting off the ground. It departed at 1.39pm local time (9.09am BST) from runway 23.
Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, an experienced pilot with over 8,200 hours of flying, made a frantic final call to the air control tower, asking fro help. “Mayday… no thrust, losing power, unable to lift,” he said desperately.
Kumar Ramesh was believed to be in seat 11a and his survival has been dubbed miraculous.
Now, a simulation that recreated the crash showed how he managed to escape death nearly unharmed.
Namely, according to a video posted on YouTube by AiTelly, Kumar Ramesh could have escaped the plane in two possible ways.
One of the possibilities is that he may have jumped from the plane while it was in the air and descending via the emergency exit, or he could have escaped after the plane crashed through the same door, seconds before it went up in flames.
The simulation also includes possible causes that led to the tragedy, from full loss of power, engine failure, to more.
According to Kumar Ramesh, who has given an interview from the hospital bed, he managed to unbuckle himself from the seat and pushed an opening using his leg.
“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran,” he said to local news media, as per Reuters. “There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital.”
Kumar Ramesh was traveling to the UK to visit his family. He was together with his brother, who sadly lost his life.
He said that he didn’t remember much, but said he had heard a “loud noise” and saw “flickering lights” inside the plane just seconds after takeoff.
“I saw people dying in front of my eyes – the air hostesses, and two people I saw near me,” he said. “For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too, but when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realised I was alive.
“I still can’t believe how I survived. I walked out of the rubble.”
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