Astonishing new footage shows the moment the British sole survivor of the deadly Air India crash survivor calmly walked away while on the phone as the aircraft exploded behind him.
British national Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was the only survivor of the Thursday crash of Air India flight AI171.
The tragedy, one of the worst aviation disasters this century, saw 241 people on the plane including the pilots and crew die after the Gatwick-bound aircraft failed just seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad, western India.
Dozens more were killed after the plane crashed into a densely populated part of the city, with doctors saying yesterday that 270 bodies have so far been recovered.
Shocking new footage taken just outside the medical college the plane crashed into showed him calmly walking away as an inferno raged just a few metres behind him.
The father, who was in India with his brother for the best part of a year and was returning to London, where his family live, was seen wandering the streets as a plume of thick, black smoke towered over him.
Locals were heard screaming and calling for emergency services in the video.
One man in a turquoise turban ran over to the dazed survivor and cried out: ‘Plane fatyo che (the plane exploded).’
The father was seen wandering the streets as a plume of thick, black smoke towered over him
British national Viswash Kumar Ramesh (pictured) was the only survivor of the Thursday crash of Air India flight AI171
While sitting up on a hospital bed, he told DD India that he was ‘feeling better’ and that the ‘treatment is going good’.
Still in shock, he admitted he ‘can’t explain’ everything that he witnessed as the plane plummeted to the ground.
He managed to escape after his side of the plane fell onto the ground of a floor building, forcing his way out of the plane past a broken door, before being assisted by locals and taken to hospital in an ambulance.
‘The emergency door was broken, my seat is broken,’ he said.
Asked if he escaped the plane by jumping to the ground, he replied: ‘I am not jumping. I just walked out innit.’
‘It’s a miracle,’ he said when discussing his survival and injuries. (Mail Online)