US EditionBritish passenger miraculously survives catastrophic Air India plane crash
- An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, June 12, 2025, killing over 200 people.
- The crash followed a mayday call and a loud noise 30 seconds after departure, with investigations focusing on mechanical issues and possible procedural errors.
- The Boeing 787-8 hit a densely populated area in Meghani Nagar, including a medical college dormitory and dining hall, causing extensive casualties and destruction.
- Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 48-year-old British-Indian sitting in seat 11A by the emergency exit, survived with multiple injuries and shared his account from the hospital bed.
- The tragedy prompted condolences from Indian officials and compensation announcements, while raising renewed concerns about airport safety and causing Boeing shares to drop over eight percent.
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First it was said that all 242 people on board the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London were killed. But a man survived. He tells how he experienced the crash.
Ahmedabad plane crash lone survivor can’t believe how he survived - The Tribune
Ramesh, a British citizen, said he felt the aircraft had stalled within seconds of taking off from Ahmedabad on its nine-hour journey to London’s Gatwick Airport, and that green and white lights came on.
In the event of a plane crash, most people will think: if that happens to you, you are dead. The fact that there was only one survivor of that enormous crash in India reinforces that feeling. And yet, says aviation expert Joris Melkert, ‘it is very difficult to have an accident in aviation’.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the only one who survived the crash of the Air India machine in Ahmedabad. From the hospital bed he described Indian media how he made it out of the plane.
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