The man said that his conscience torments him because his brother died in a plane crash.
The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash has told how he managed to free himself from the wreckage. Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was sitting in seat 11A, said it was a “miracle” that he survived the disaster that killed 279 people.
The British publication The Sun writes about this.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said he felt “terrible” for failing to save his brother Ajay and now feels guilty for his death.
The 40-year-old from Leicester said: “It's a miracle I survived. I'm physically fine but I feel terrible that I couldn't save Ajay.”
Vishwash tried to book two seats next to each other on flight AI171, which crashed into a densely populated area of Ahmedabad city shortly after takeoff.
But when he went to make his reservation, he had to choose two seats spaced apart in row 11.
Vishwash said, “If we had sat together, we both could have survived. I tried to get two seats together, but someone had already taken one. Ajay and I would have sat together. But I lost my brother in front of my eyes. And now I keep thinking, why can't I save my brother?”
Vishwash, who was sitting near one of the plane's emergency exits, was able to crawl through a hole in the twisted fuselage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
His brother Ajay, who was sitting in seat 11J, tragically died along with 240 other passengers and crew.
Recall that the Air India plane, en route to London Gatwick, crashed at the airport in the city of Ahmedabad in western India. There were 242 people on board. Only one person survived – Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh. In addition, dozens of passers-by died, because the plane crashed in a densely populated residential area.
