Who is Ramesh Vishwaskumar, lonely survivor in Air India aircraft crash? | Today news
The Air India aircraft accident in Ahmedabad took over 200 lives, including passengers and crew on board. However, one man could stay alive in this deadly air crash, which happened shortly after the plane left for London at Ahmedabad airport on the afternoon of June 12. Who is Ramesh Vishwaskumar? Ramesh Vishwaskumar, 40 years old, is a British citizen who was on board the Air India aircraft that crashed in Meghani Nagar, just 15 kilometers from Ahmedabad Airport from where the plane rose. He visited India to meet his older brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, who also traveled with him in the plane, but was reportedly missing. Ramesh is reportedly the lonely survivor from the air accident, who also took the life of the former Gujarat Vijay Rupani chief minister. The plane carried 242 passengers, including 230 passengers and 12 crew members. Among them, there were allegedly 53 British citizens, seven Portuguese and one Canadian national. Ramesh is currently under critical medical care, after sustaining injuries to his chest, eyes and feet, but was able to make it alive from the accident. He sat in seating number 11a at the time of the air accident. “I was scared. I got up and ran. There were bodies around me, ‘Ramesh told Hindustan Times. “There were pieces of the plane spread everywhere,” he continued. Ramesh also said that an unidentified person helped him get into an ambulance that rushed to nearby hospital for immediate treatment. Others injured in the air accident were also taken to Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad after the incident. Family members of the victims of the accident met in large numbers for news about their loved ones. A man outside the hospital in Ahmedabad could be heard in an ani video: ‘My sister and brother-in-law are both inside, but they don’t let us go … They went to London … My cousin is in London, and they’re going to see her. She called me out of London to say that her parents were on the flight, and then I rushed here … ‘