Air India’s sole survivor recalls crash: ‘I saw people dying in front of my eyes’
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'When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran,' survivor Viswash Kumar Ramesh said after escaping the crash.
The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people spoke out on Friday, saying he couldn’t believe he was alive as he recounted seeing others dying near him while he escaped through a broken emergency exit.
The airline confirmed in a statement on X that there was a “sole survivor” from the crash that took place on Thursday just after takeoff from Ahmedabad in India, headed for London’s Gatwick airport.
Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the survivor, was in seat 11A near the emergency exit, and he said he managed to squeeze through the broken hatch. He was filmed on Thursday limping on the street in a blood-stained shirt with bruises on his face.
Ramesh, a British national of Indian origin, told Indian state broadcaster DD News that he doesn’t “believe how I survived” while speaking with the outlet from his hospital bed on Friday.
“For some time I thought I was also going to die,” Ramesh, 40, said. “But when I opened my eyes, I realized I was alive and I tried to unbuckle myself from the seat and escape from where I could.
“I saw people dying in front of my eyes — the air hostesses, and two people I saw near me.… I walked out of the rubble.”
“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran,” he told Hindustan Times.
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