“I don’t know how I am alive,” the survivor of the Air India crash tells his family.

According to a doctor, Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38, was the only one of the 242 passengers aboard the aircraft to leave after suffering various injuries.

 

Thursday, the lone survivor of Air India Flight 171 called his family in Britain and said he couldn’t explain his good fortune. Shortly after emerging from the debris on Thursday, the lone survivor of Air India Flight 171 called his family in Britain and said he couldn’t explain his good fortune. Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the passenger, reportedly said, “I don’t know how I am alive,” according to his 27-year-old younger brother Nayan Ramesh. Viswash, 38, was returning to London from Ahmedabad, India, when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed just moments after takeoff, killing the other 241 passengers. His brother Ajay was one of them. There was shock and grief at the Ramesh family’s Leicester, England, home. Two dozen guys, including a dazed-looking Nayan, lingered about outside the house.

 

Two dozen guys, including a dazed-looking Nayan, lingered about outside the house. An elderly woman was observed sobbing and receiving consolation inside the open door of the residence.In India, a doctor who said he had examined Viswash, Dhaval Gameti, told The Associated Press that the former Air India passenger was “disoriented, with multiple injuries all over his body, but he seems to be out of danger.”

 

Later, Nayan said that the family had spoken with his brother from the hospital. “They have told him to be on bed rest, and they have switched off his phone,” he said.

 

Shortly after the plane crashed, Viswash, who had been on vacation, Nayan said, managed to make a video call to his father from next to the wreckage.

 

“Our plane crashed,” he said, according to Nayan. “I have no idea how I got outside.”

He had to couple the extraordinarily good news with the extraordinary bad.

“He was like: ‘I can’t see my brother. I can’t see any other passengers,’” Nayan said. “He was just in shock.”

Then he was hustled into an ambulance.Viswash was “disoriented, with multiple injuries all over his body, but he seems to be out of danger,” according to a doctor in India who told The Associated Press that he had seen Viswash, Dhaval Gameti. Nayan later claimed that his brother from the hospital had been contacted by the family. He stated, “They have turned off his phone and instructed him to be on bed rest.” Viswash, who had been on vacation, was able to video call his father from near the ruins shortly after the plane crashed, according to Nayan. According to Nayan, he stated, “Our plane crashed.”

 

ed,” Nayan quotes him as saying. “I don’t know how I got outside.” He had to combine the exceptionally positive news with the exceptionally negative one. “I can’t see my brother,” he said. “I see no other passengers,” Nayan remarked. “He was simply stunned.”