Narendra Modi has met the British sole survivor of Thursday’s fiery Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people.
The Indian prime minister on Friday visited the devastated neighbourhood in the city of Ahmedabad where the Gatwick-bound flight went down within seconds of take-off a day earlier.
Modi was then seen meeting Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British businessman from Leicester who miraculously survived the crash. He was in seat 11A, next to one of the aircraft’s emergency exits.
Aviation experts in the business of assessing crashes consider this a “non-survivable crash”.
“As far as this accident is concerned, I think it’s miraculous that anyone survived because I think technically this crash is probably a non-survivable crash,” Prof Edwin Galea, director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) at the University of Greenwich, told The Telegraph.
