The only survivor in India recalls the incident: “I saw people dying in front of my eyes” – my country star-news.press/wp
The only survivor of the Indian aircraft that killed more than 240 people on Friday spoke, saying he could not believe that he was alive as he was telling the vision of others died near him while fleeing through a broken emergency exit.
The airline confirmed in a statement about X that there was a “single survivor” of the accident that occurred on Thursday after being taken off from Ahmed Abad in India, and went to Gatwick Airport in London.
Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the survivor, was in the 11A seat near the emergency exit, and said he managed to press through the broken opening. It was filmed on Thursday, dumping on the street in a blood stained shirt with bruises on his face.
Ramish, a British citizen of Indian origin, told Indian state broadcaster DD News He does not believe in how we survived “while talking to the hospital’s bed on Friday.
“For some time I thought I would also die,” said Ramish, 40. “But when I opened my eyes, I realized that I was alive and tried to escape the seat and escape from where I could.
“I have seen people dying in front of my eyes – air flights, and two people I saw near me. … I got out of the rubble.”
“When I woke up, there were bodies around me. I was afraid. I stood up and ran,” he said, he said Hindustan times.
Ramish said: “The side of the plane that I was landing on the ground, and I could see that there was space outside the plane, so when I broke my door I tried to escape through it.” “The other side of the plane was banned by the building’s wall so that no one can get out of there.”
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He recalled the moments before the accident, saying that when the journey took off, “within 5 to 10 seconds, I felt stuck in the air.”
“Suddenly, the lights began to fade – green and white – then the plane shocked some of the institutions that were there,” he said.
A civil hospital official in Ahmedabad said that Ramish suffered from burns and bruises and was under the hospital’s observation.
“He felt confused with multiple injuries throughout his body,” Dr. Daval Greiter, who treated Ramish, I told Associated Press. “But it seems superior.”
One of the officials added that “his escape … without any serious injury, was not less than a miracle. He also realizes this while vibrating a little from her shock as well.”
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Amit Shah, meets with the survivor of the British plane crash, Fishwash Kumar Ramish, 40, in a hospital in Ahmedabad after Air India confirmed that he is the only survivor among 242 people on Boeing 787 Dreamliner restricted in London.
Ministry of Internal Affairs India via AP
Ramish said he was traveling with his brother Ajay, who was sitting in a different row. They were visiting a family in India and returning to the United Kingdom when the accident occurred.
He called the relatives in Leicester after the accident, his cousin, Ajay Walji, BBC said. He has a wife and a “young boy” at home.
“He only said he is fine, nothing else,” Falji said, adding that the family is happy because he is fine, but we are still upset with the other brother. “
Another brother of Ramish, Nayan Kumar Ramish, Sky News said I called Viswash his father moments after the accident to say he survived.
The director said: “My father called the video while crashing and said:” The plane crashed. I don’t know where my brother is. I do not see any other passengers. I don’t know how I am alive, how I got out of the plane. “
Nayyan said that his brothers were supposed to pick up from Gatwick Airport on Thursday, and the entire family planned to meet to gather this week.
He said: “I have no words to describe.” “It is a miracle of survival – but what about the other miracle of my other brother?”
He said his family was “destroyed,” adding, “I am afraid of flying now – even sitting on a plane.”
After the collapse, Air India shared a leaflet on X, stressing, “The passengers consist of 169 Indian citizens, 53 British citizens, 7 Portuguese citizens and one Canadian citizen.”
Campbell Wilson, CEO of Air India, shared his “deep sorrow over this event” in a video posted on X after the disruption.
“We are actively working with the authorities in all efforts to respond to emergency situations,” Wilson said. “A special team of sponsorship providers from India is on his way to Ahmedabad to provide additional support.”
Police said that some people in a dormitory of a nearby medicine and others on the ground were also killed on the plane crashed into the building. Rescue workers were looking for missing persons and parts of aircraft in the charred buildings in the youth house on Friday to help find the cause of the accident.
Air India said the investigation would take time. Planemaker Boeing said that a team of experts are ready to go to India to help the investigation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in his hometown in Gujarat to visit the crash site, met Ramish in the hospital on Friday.
The cause of the accident was not determined, the first of the wide -body Boeing Dreamliner, and that the Minister of Aviation in India said that the official investigation had started. Air India did not comment on the cause of the accident.
– With Reuters files and Associated Press
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