Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the recent Air India crash, was definitely in the safest seat, given that he was in the one location he could have been to remain alive.
The British national, who was traveling back to the U.K. on Thursday after visiting family in India, managed to leave the wreckage with minor injuries after the plane went down shortly after takeoff, killing 241 people.
His brother Ajay was sitting in another row and was among the casualties.
“It all happened so quickly,” Ramesh told the Hindustan Times. “When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran.”
“There were pieces of the plane all around me.
“Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital.”
It has since come to light that the seat he occupied, 11A, was the same seat another survivor sat in several years ago.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh Gave Another Survivor The Chills
Singer Ruangsak Loychusak was also sitting in 11A when a Thai Airways flight crashed in 1998 and killed 101 passengers, leaving another 45 injured. The plane was flying from Bangkok to Surat Thani before its engines stalled and it crashed into a swamp.
Loychusak told reporters he got the chills after learning that Ramesh was also sitting in 11A.
“The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A,” he remarked. “I want to offer my condolences to all those who lost loved ones in the tragedy.”
He said that he was unable to fly for 10 years after the crash and had difficulty breathing even if the air around him was normal, while he spent most of his time near an open window to maintain a sense of safety.
“If I saw dark clouds or a rainstorm outside, I would feel terrible, like I was in hell. I can still remember the sounds, smells, and even the taste of the water in the swamp the plane crashed into.”
“For a long time, I would keep the feelings to myself,” he added.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh denies having jumped out of the plane, as initially reported, but said he walked away from the wreckage. He is still unable to explain how he survived the deadly crash.
