L096-INDIA SUPERVIVIENTE AVION

03 de noviembre 2025 - 17:33

The lone survivor of June's Air India crash said that he still could not believe that he was the only living victim of the air tragedy in an interview with the BBC on Sunday (November 2).

Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only survivor out of the 242 people onboard the plane that crashed in Ahmedabad, added that he does not talk to anyone now and that he lost everything in the catastrophic crash, including his brother Ajay.

Ramesh had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight on June 12 when it crashed in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.

The lone passenger defied near-impossible odds to walk away from the crash with minor injuries.

Ramesh attended his brother’s funeral on June 18 and carried his coffin.

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AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 12, 2025) (SOCIAL MEDIA - No archive / No resale / News use only) (MUTE)

1. CCTV FOOTAGE SHOWING AIR INDIA FLIGHT AI171 TAKING OFF FROM RUNWAY AND CRASHING SHORTLY AFTER TAKE-OFF

LEICESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 2, 2025) (BBC - No use UK)

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOT OF VISWASHKUMAR SPEAKING)

"Still am not believe. I am only one survivor."

AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 12, 2025) (ANI - No use India)

3. VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS SPRAYING WATER ON SMOULDERING WRECKAGE FOLLOWING PLANE CRASH

4. DEBRIS FROM PLANE CRASH

5. RESCUER PICKING UP LUGGAGE FROM WRECKAGE

6. FIREFIGHTERS SPRAYING WATER ON CHARRED BUILDINGS

LEICESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 2, 2025) (BBC - No use UK)

7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH, SAYING:

"It is really painful for me to explain that happen still, I can't say anything about that now."

AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 12, 2025) (ANI - No use India)

8. VARIOUS OF TAIL OF PLANE PROTRUDING FROM HOSTEL BUILDING AT CRASH SITE

LEICESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 2, 2025) (BBC - No use UK)

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH, SAYING:

"I don't like to talk with anyone else, I just sit in my room alone, no talking, like my wife, my son, I'm not talking with anyone. I just like alone in my house."

AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 13, 2025) (DOORDARSHAN - No use India)

10. REPORTER ASKING QUESTION TO SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH, / (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH, SAYING:

"Everything happened in front of my eyes. I don't believe (know) how I survived. For some time I thought I was also going to die. But when I opened my eyes, I realised I was alive and I tried to unbuckle myself from the seat and escape from where I could. It was in front of my eyes that the air hostess and others (died)."

11. (MUTE) VARIOUS OF INDIAN PRIME MINISTER, NARENDRA MODI, TALKING TO RAMESH

LEICESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (NOVEMBER 2, 2025) (BBC - No use UK)

12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOLE SURVIVOR OF AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH, VISWASHKUMAR RAMESH SAYING:

"Also, I lost everything, my brother, for me, I lost my brother in there."

13. VISWASHKUMAR CRYING

DIU, DAMAN AND DIU, INDIA (FILE - JUNE 18, 2025) (ANI - No use India)

14. VARIOUS OF RAMESH CRYING / PEOPLE EMBRACING HIM

15. RAMESH AND RELATIVES CARRYING BODY OF HIS BROTHER, AJAY, WHO DIED IN THE CRASH

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