An Ahmedabad-London Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed into a medical college complex here minutes after takeoff on Thursday.
Ahmedabad plane crash: After the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed on Thursday afternoon, no one would have imagined that anyone could come out of the crash alive. However, defying the odds, one survivor has come out of the Air India flight crash. Aged forty years, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh is a British national, who was in India for a few days to visit his family now lies alive at a hospital in Ahmedabad.
As per a report by the Hindustan Times, Ramesh was going back to the UK along with his brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, who is still missing after the plane crash.
“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”, Ramesh told HT about his deadly expereince.
“We are looking for him. If you find out something, let me know”, he said about his brother.
Details on Ahmedabad-London Air India plane crash
An Ahmedabad-London Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed into a medical college complex here minutes after takeoff on Thursday, possibly killing all on board in one of the country’s worst air tragedies.
There was no official count of those killed even hours after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (AI171) crashed in the city civil hospital and BJ Medical College near the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport and burst into a ball of fire.
As rescuers struggled to find survivors in the charred wreckage and pull out the injured, many of them with grievous burns, officials tried to assess the human magnitude of the disaster. Unofficial reports said chances of survival of those on board were remote and up to 25 people in the medical complex could also have died.
According to Air India, of the 230 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. The other 12 were two pilots and 10 crew members.
(With inputs from agencies)
