The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash told Friday how he crawled out of an emergency door — while one of his brothers was among more than 240 killed, despite being just seats away.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was on Thursday filmed limping in a bloodstained T-shirt with bruises on his face, still clutching his boarding pass for the Boeing 787 that crashed in a residential neighborhood in Ahmedabad.
The married dad miraculously walked away when the plane broke apart, with his section landing unexploded on the ground while other chunks hit a building, bursting into a giant fireball.
“When I opened my eyes, I realized I was alive,” he said from his hospital bed on Friday, where he was visited by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.
“The side of the plane I was in landed on the ground, and I could see that there was space outside the aircraft, so when my door broke, I tried to escape through it,” the British national told Indian state media DD News.
