‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy | Aviation News

Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Boeing 787 plane crash, said he had witnessed other passengers.

The only survivor of the air India Avion Crash said he could not believe that he was alive after having escaped an emergency exit broken in a fatal accident that killed 241 people.

Shortly after Thursday’s crash, social media images showed that Ramesh has shown that Ramesh Box in the street in a bloody t-shirt and with bruises on his body.

National British was seated in the 11A seat on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner who was flying in London when the plane crashed into a medical college inn for a few moments after having taken off from northwestern India, Ahmedabad.

Ramesh, 40, told India national broadcaster on Friday, DD News in his hospital bed that he thought that he was “also going to die”.

“But when I opened my eyes, I realized that I was alive and tried to unlock from the seat and escape where I could. It is before my eyes that the hostess of the air and others [died]”He said.

He was traveling with his brother Ajay, who had been seated in another row, said family members.

“The side of the plane in which I was in the ground, and I could see that there was space outside the plane, so when my door broke, I tried to escape and I did it,” said Ramesh.

“The opposite side of the plane was blocked by the building wall so that no one could have left there,” he added.

He explained that the plane had seemed to have arrived at the arrest of the air for a few seconds shortly after taking off and felt the push of the engine, which then “crushed speed in the inn”.

The Ramel cousin, Hiren Kantilal, 19, told the AFP news agency that he had called his family to Leicester, in the East Midlands in England, after the accident to tell them that he was alive.

“Our plane has been crushed,” said Ramesh to his father, according to his cousin.

“He was bleeding everywhere on him, in the face and everything, and he said,” I’m just waiting for my brother and I don’t know how I get out of the plane. “”

“He said,” Don’t worry about me, try to find Ajay Kumar “and he said:” I’m fine. “”

Kantilal said that his cousin had spent about 10 to 15 minutes looking for his brother, then was taken to hospital by rescue services.

“We are happy that Vishwash was saved, but on the other hand, we just have a broken heart about Ajay,” he told AFP.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday, the accident site visited and met rameshies at the hospital.

Friday, the rescuers continued to search for missing people and plane parts after the worst aviation accident in a decade.