Sole Survivor of Air India Crash Seen Escaping Wreckage in New Footage
Shocking new footage has emerged showing the moment Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Air India crash, crawled from the burning wreckage.
The June 12 crash claimed 270 lives, including all 241 passengers and crew, and dozens on the ground. The AI171 jet, headed for London, crashed less than a minute after takeoff from Ahmedabad, slamming into a medical college’s residential building.
Ramesh, a 40-year-old father from Leicester, had been seated in 11A with his brother Ajay, who sadly did not survive. He recalled unfastening his seatbelt and using his leg to push through an opening to escape.
“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I ran. Someone pulled me into an ambulance,” he said from his hospital bed.
Passersby in the video can be heard screaming for help as one person guided the bleeding and dazed Ramesh to emergency services.
Ramesh told DD News that the part of the plane he was in remained mostly intact during the crash. He remembers a loud noise and flickering lights just after takeoff, then chaos.
“I saw people dying around me — the air hostesses, others near me. For a moment, I thought I would die too.”
Remarkably, he suffered only minor injuries and is now in stable condition.
Authorities have recovered the plane’s black box, which will help uncover what led to the disaster.
