Air India Crash Ahmedabad Kills 241, One Survivor Escapes

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of the Air India flight AI-171 crash near Ahmedabad, which killed 229 passengers, 12 crew members, and five people on the ground. Seated in 11A, a seat near the emergency exit, Ramesh managed to escape the wreckage by jumping through a broken door into a space that allowed his survival amid the devastation. Tragically, his brother Ajaykumar Ramesh, seated in 11J across the aisle, perished in the crash, leaving the family in profound grief and shock. The coincidence that another crash survivor, Thai singer James Ruangsak Loychusak, was also seated in 11A during a fatal crash 27 years ago has drawn widespread attention and reflection on the eerie link between the two men. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Vishwash at the hospital, underscoring the gravity of the tragedy. The family, based in Leicester, is coping with the emotional contrast of one brother's survival and the other's death, describing Vishwash's survival as a miracle.