The sole survivor of yesterday’s deadly Air India plane crash has shared his shocking account of the disaster and described how he ‘jumped out’ after the jet smashed into the ground
Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, miraculously survived the plane disaster, which k!lled all but one of the 242 passengers and crew on-board.
Mr Ramesh, who lives in London with his wife and child, is being treated at a hospital in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad, where he told doctors that immediately after the plane took off, it began descending and suddenly split in two.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti, who examined Mr Ramesh, told the Associated Press that he was disoriented with ‘multiple injuries all over his body’, but that he ‘seems to be out of danger.’
Speaking to Indian broadcaster Doordarshan, Mr Ramesh recounted his horrific ordeal, and spoke of how he witnessed air hostesses and others die ‘in front of my eyes’.
‘I don’t know how I came out of it alive’, he said from his hospital bed.
‘For a while, I thought I was about to d!e. But when I opened my eyes, I saw I was alive. And I opened my seatbelt and got out of there.’
His seat was placed right next to the emergency door, which he says came off when the plane hit the ground.
‘The side where I was seated fell into the ground floor of the building,’ Mr Ramesh recounted.
‘There was some space. When the door broke, I saw that space and I just jumped out.’
‘The door must’ve broken on impact,’ he said.
‘There was a wall on the opposite side, but near me, it was open. I ran. I don’t know how.’
When the plane hit the ground yesterday, seat 11A, where Mr Ramesh was sat, collapsed into the ground floor of the building, instead of the upper levels where the jet’s main body was badly destroyed.
Mr Ramesh also described how just moments after take off, it ‘felt like the plane had got stuck.’
He recalled how the pilots tried to raise the jet, but it ‘went full speed and crashed into the building’.
Mr Ramesh explained how the plane quickly caught fire following the crash, and said he burned his arm.
Astonishing footage taken near the crash site yesterday showed Mr Ramesh with visible injuries hobbling away from the jet before he was rushed to hospital for treatment.
Mr Ramesh, whose brother was also on the flight and is presumed dead, described yesterday how he heard a ‘a loud noise’ before the plane crashed.
‘When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran.
‘There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital.’
India’s prime minister met the plane crash survivor on Friday, as well as those who were injured on the ground.
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