A British man has walked away from the wreckage of the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people in an extraordinary tale of survival.
Vishwashkumar Ramesh was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight when it crashed shortly after take off in Ahmedabad, western India.
Mr Ramesh’s brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, told BBC News Vishwashkumar “has no idea how he survived” and escaped the plane as the only survivor.
There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian on the Gatwick Airport-bound flight, Air India said.
It’s possible that other people survived the initial crash, but it was the ability of this guy to quickly regain consciousness and walk away that meant that he managed to avoid post-crash fires (which others may not have been able to escape). So it might make sense that he only survived because he was able to walk away quickly after the crash.
The fumes and smoke alone would have killed people quickly