British man describes how he escaped Air India wreckage

[ad_1] The British man who was the only real survivor of Thursday's Air India aircraft crash mentioned he managed to flee the wreckage by a gap within the fuselage.

"I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push by that opening, and crawled out," Vishwashkumar Ramesh informed Indian state media DD Information.

Mr Ramesh, 40, was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787 flight when it went down shortly after take off in Ahmedabad, western India on Thursday.

Air India mentioned all different passengers and crew had been killed - together with 169 Indian nationals and 52 British nationals. Greater than 200 our bodies have been recovered to date, although it's unclear what number of had been passengers and what number of had been from the bottom.

Talking from his hospital mattress, Mr Ramesh mentioned the lights contained in the plane "began flickering" moments after take off.

Inside 5 to 10 seconds, it felt just like the aircraft was "caught within the air", he mentioned.

"The lights began flickering inexperienced and white...abruptly slammed right into a constructing and exploded."

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed right into a constructing used as lodging for medical doctors on the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical School and Civil Hospital.

However Mr Ramesh, from Leicester, mentioned the part he was sitting in landed close to the bottom and didn't make contact with the constructing.

"When the door broke and I noticed there was some house, I attempted to get out of there and I did.

"Nobody might have gotten out from the other aspect, which was in the direction of the wall, as a result of it crashed there."

Video shared on social media confirmed Mr Ramesh strolling in the direction of an ambulance with smoke billowing within the background.

He informed the Indian broadcaster he couldn't consider that he got here out of the wreckage alive.

"I noticed individuals dying in entrance of my eyes - the air hostesses, and two individuals I noticed close to me," he mentioned.

"For a second, I felt like I used to be going to die too, however once I opened my eyes and regarded round, I realised I used to be alive.

"I nonetheless cannot consider how I survived. I walked out of the rubble."

Dr Dhaval Gameti, who handled Mr Ramesh, mentioned he was "disorientated, with a number of accidents throughout his physique", however that he seems to be "out of hazard".

On Friday morning, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash web site earlier than making his approach to the hospital to fulfill injured individuals together with Mr Ramesh, and the households of victims.

Mr Ramesh's brother, Ajay, was additionally onboard the aircraft.

Their different brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, informed BBC Information on Thursday from exterior their household dwelling in Leicester: "When he [Vishwashkumar] known as us, he was simply extra nervous about [Ajay]... that is all he cares about in the mean time."