Ramesh-A miracle man who survived a deadliest air tragedy
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ June 12,2025
Ramesh Vishwas Kumar, a British national who was returning to London after Gujarat visit is the lone survivor of the Air India plane crash at Ahmedabad, while 241 others on board were killed.
Originally from India, Ramesh has lived in London for the past 20 years with his wife and child. His return trip was supposed to be a brief family reunion; instead, it turned into a brush with death.
Amid the fiery wreckage of the Air India crash that rocked India on Thursday afternoon, one man emerged from the inferno—bruised, shaken, and alive. Ramesh Vishwaskumar, a British citizen living in London for the past 20 years with his wife and child seated on 11A, miraculously survived a tragedy that 241 other people on board could not.
“Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise,” he told local reporters, all of whom had milled around him with deep disbelief. “There were dead bodies around me. I got scared. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane everywhere.”
His chest, eyes, and feet bore “impact injuries,” but he lived to tell the tale. In the viral video now making rounds on social media, Ramesh can be seen limping away from the wreckage, clothes torn, blood streaking down his face.
Ramesh-A miracle man who survived a deadliest air tragedy. But the trauma didn’t end with survival. His brother Ajay Vishwaskumar, who was also on the same flight, is currently ‘missing’.
Earlier, today afternoon, an Air India Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick was crashed at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad during take-off.
The flight, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which departed from Ahmedabad at 1338 hrs, was carrying 242 passengers and crew members on board the Boeing 787-8 aircraft. Of these, 169 are Indian nationals, 53 are British nationals, 1 Canadian national and 7 Portuguese nationals.
