Air India AI 171 crash: 40-year-old survivor recounts horror after deadly Ahmedabad disaster

Viswash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, is reported to be the sole survivor of the Air India AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad. He suffered injuries and shared a chilling account of the crash that killed 241 others onboard

Hyderabad: Even as families and relatives of those onboard the ill-fated London-bound Air India flight AI 171 desperately search for details of their loved ones after the disaster in Ahmedabad, a 40-year-old man, Viswash Kumar Ramesh, has survived the deadly crash.

According to a report in the Hindustan Times, Viswash escaped with injuries to his chest, eyes, and feet. The report quotes him as saying, “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”

Reports suggest that Viswash Kumar, a British national seated in seat 11A, was the only survivor among the 242 people onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

In an official statement, Air India confirmed that of the 242 people onboard AI 171, there were 12 crew members and 230 passengers, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 British, 7 Portuguese, and 1 Canadian.