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“I don’t know how I came out alive”, says Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash, in which over 200 people are believed to have died when the ill-fated London-bound aircraft crashed into a medical college building near the airport minutes after it took off.
Mr. Ramesh (40), a British Indian national, was travelling on seat number 11A, situated next to the emergency door.
“Everything happened in front of my eyes, a visibly shaken Mr. Ramesh told a reporter from Doordarshan. Yet to come out of the shock, Mr. Ramesh said he managed to come out of the burning aircraft as the emergency door was broken. He said he witnessed a “blast” as soon as he came out.
Mr. Ramesh said he came to India to visit his family along with his brother.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Mr. Ramesh, who is undergoing treatment the C7 ward of the civil hospital in Ahmedabad. As many as 25 people injured in the deadly crash are undergoing treatment in the hospital.
“The good news is that one person survived the crash...,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday after meeting Mr. Ramesh and visiting the crash site. Television and social media showed Mr. Ramesh, in bloodstained white t-shirt and dark pants limping on a street, getting into the ambulance with medic’s help.
The BBC reported that Mr. Ramesh is married and has a son. The details of his brother, who travelled with him in the ill-fated flight is unknown.
As many as 241 people on board, including 168 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian national, were killed. Four MBBS students and a doctor’s wife were among those killed at the complex of BJ Medical College outside the airport perimeter.
Published - June 13, 2025 01:51 pm IST
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