Air India's Only Survivor Miraculous Escape Process Revealed...Come out of the twisted fuselage
Jun 19, 2025
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According to British media Daily Mail, Vishwash, an Indian-British man, was sitting in an 11A seat next to the emergency exit at the time of the accident and was miraculously able to get out of the aircraft through a twisted fuselage hole immediately after the accident. But he said he felt deeply guilty that he could not save his brother Ajayi Kumar Ramesh, 45, who died on the same plane.
In an interview with British media outlet The Sun, Vishwash could not have survived if not for a miracle" he vented. He said "I'm okay physically, but the fact that I couldn't save my brother is so terrible"
He said he tried to sit side by side with his brother when he booked the flight, but one seat was already reserved, so he ended up sitting at 11A and his brother at 11J. "If we had sat down together, we might have all survived," he said with regret.
Regarding the escape process, he said, "It was thanks to sitting next to the emergency exit seat, and it was possible to escape through the twisted gap of the fuselage immediately after the accident." He crawled out immediately after the accident and reportedly went to rescue his brother at the scene.
An emergency services worker said "He tried to enter shouting 'My brother is in there', and I grabbed his arm and led him to the ambulance" Rescuers said Vishwash was in a state of chaos and shock at the time, and had blood on his face.
A few days later, Vishwash marched with a coffin himself at his brother's funeral in Gujarat, India.
Feeling emotional, he sobbed in tears, and soon lost consciousness from shock and was taken to a hospital, according to local media.
Meanwhile, Air India flight AI171, which took off from Ahmedabad Sardar Balabhai Patel International Airport in Gujarat, India at around 1:38 p.m. on the 12th (local time), crashed into the medical school dormitory building in 30 seconds.
The death toll from the accident is at least 270 so far. Of the 242 passengers on the plane, only one survivor is Vishwash, and the rest are medical students and their families in the dormitory building on the ground.
The accident was recorded as the world's worst aircraft disaster in the last decade.
Indian authorities are conducting a full investigation to recover the aircraft's black box and determine the cause of the accident. It is being investigated whether the accident is a simple mechanical defect, a maintenance problem, or a weather problem.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
