A senior Indian police official told the country's national news agency ANI on Thursday that a man – a man doomed to fail Air India flies to crashed London Shortly after the departure of the city of Ahmedabad, survived the disaster.
Indian media spoke with a man from a local hospital who said he was British citizen Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the person listed as the seat on flight AI171..
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik, initially told ANI that no from Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner The man who fell into the city was later quoted by the same news agency saying that “the police found a survivor in seat 11A”. He said the person was “in hospital and under treatment.”
According to French news agency AFP, “Yes, a survivor was confirmed.”
Air India flight AI171 was filmed on site after crashing in a residential area near Ahmedabad in western India on June 12, 2025.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital told the Associated Press that he checked Ramesh and the crash survivor “had suffered multiple injuries on his body, but he seemed to be out of danger.”
Gameti told the Associated Press that the bodies of 186 passengers on the plane had been taken to a civil hospital.
Indian media, who spoke to Ramesh at the hospital, said he had a bad luck flight ticket showing his name and seat 11A.
“Thirty seconds after takeoff, a huge sound was made and the plane crashed. Everything was so fast,” The Times of India quoted Ramesh as saying. The newspaper said he reported that his chest, face and feet were “affected.”
Video of the crash shows the plane before flying over low altitude on the building and then dropping, followed by a huge explosion that sent a huge fireball into the air.
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