A British national is understood to have been the sole survivor of a London-bound Air India flight, which crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad on Thursday (12 June).
The incident involved a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft (Credit: iStock / Yatrik Sheth)
Vishwashkumar Ramesh, who was sitting in seat 11A onboard Air India flight AI171 to Gatwick, walked away from the incident, in which all 241 other passengers and crew were killed, making it the world’s worst aviation disaster for a decade.
These included a further 52 British nationals, 169 Indians, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. Ramesh’s brother told the BBC he had no idea how he escaped.
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