Vishwash Kumar Ramesh
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Ahmedabad: A new video has surfaced showing Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash walking away from the wreckage.
Behind him, a massive smoke is rising and people gathered on the opposite side of the roads are screaming in panic. The video clip shows him emerging from the site holding an object that looks like a phone and glancing back repeatedly.
The video clip is said to have been shot right after the plane crashed into the BJ Medical College hostel buildings.
Vishwash is recuperating at the civil hospital, Ahmedabad where his condition is stable. He is originally from Diu, a union territory, on the border of Gujarat. He was returning to London with his brother, Ashok, who died in the crash.
Sources said the man in a turban was the driver, identified as Satinder Singh, of an ambulance van of 108 medical emergency service. The other person, who is walking him away from the crash site to an ambulance, has been identified as Chintan Vankar, a staff of 108 emergency services.
"I don't know how it happened...I just can't believe how I came out alive. I felt that I was going to die..then I unbuckled myself.... right before my eyes, I saw air hostesses and uncles, aunties dying," Vishwash had told Doordarshan news from the hospital bed.
He was seated in seat number 11A, which is next to the emergency door.
He had narrated that within a minute after the flight took off, he felt something was off about the plane. "For five-ten seconds it felt as if the flight had got stuck. Soon, the plane lights-green and white in colour, were switched on. They (pilots) must have tried to lift the flight but it went full speed and crashed."
"There was some small space near me..when the door broke, I saw that there was space to get out...For a moment, I thought I was going to die but when I opened my eyes, I saw I was alive. I unbuckled my seat and got out of there," he recalled.