“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.
