Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the miracle of the Air India – Liberation crash
Viswash Kumar Ramesh is a miracle. This 40 -year -old British national, who took place this Thursday, June 12 aboard the AI171 flight towards Londonis, among the 242 passengers, the only survivor in the crash. Found in life around the debris of the India air apparatus, which crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad, in western India, just after taking off, Viswash Kumar Ramesh was immediately transported by ambulance to the city’s civil hospital. Indian national media Hindustan Times went to meet him.
“Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a big noise, then the plane crashed. Everything happened so quickly ”, told the Briton on a daily basis, lying on a bed. Indian authorities have confirmed that he was the only survivor of the crash, and that he was « Hospitalized and is under treatment ». Man, who says he has undergone « Impact injuries » In the chest, eyes and feet, was filmed shortly after the disaster, walking, slightly lame, to the emergency vehicle.
Still in possession of his boarding pass, he told the Indian media that he had to travel to the 11A siege with his brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, 45, seated a few rows further. The two men went to India for a few days to visit their family and were preparing to return to the United Kingdom. « He was traveling with me and I can’t find him anymore. Please help me find it ”, he asked.
Its survival remains unexplained for the moment. “When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was afraid. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me ”, he said. « Having a survivor on such a crash is clearly a miracle », confirms Release Jean Serrat, former airline pilot and aeronautical consultant for BFM TV. “Its location is important. Headquarters 11a East on the left side, against the porthole, at the front of the device. But above all just before the length that separates the wing in half. The plane usually breaks just after this element ”, advance the specialist.
If rumors want the back of an aircraft to be more secure than the front, in this case, it is the opposite. “The plane has obviously lost speed, we see that it goes down little by little. The pilot has certainly tried to keep him in flight by pulling as much as possible on the handle in the air, hypothetize Jean Serrat. When it strikes the building, there are strong probabilities that it was the half rear part that first touched and exploded, while the front part continued to slip « .
The other theory circulating in the Indian media, especially on the chain Times Nowwants Viswash Kumar Ramesh to skipped the plane by the emergency exit just before the impact with the ground. It is still difficult to imagine in such a situation.
Anyway, Viswash Kumar Ramesh can find his wife and child in London. Thursday evening, many families still hoped for a happy outcome, and walked the hospital corridors in search of relatives who were able to survive the crash.
Update At 9:47 p.m. with more context and the analysis of the aeronautical specialist Jean Serrat.
