
Brit survivor of Air India disaster tormented by nightmares where ‘everyone dies' and ‘won't speak' about horror crash
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, walked away with cuts and chest injuries after the
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Vishwash Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash, posing for the first time since the disaster
Credit: Dan Charity
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Vishwash crawled through a hole in the wreckage and walked to an ambulance
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Vishwash Ramesh is in a hospital a mile from where Air India flight 171 crashed
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Despite being dubbed the "miracle man" and a "symbol of hope" in the country, the Brit still lies
His cousin Krunal Keshave, 24, from Leicester, says he manages to sleep, but not properly.
He told
'He remembers seeing everyone die in front of his eyes.'
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Vishwash decided to stay in India to recover at his family home in Bucharwada hamlet in Diu, instead of going back to London or Leicester.
He had been sitting in seat 11A, next to an emergency exit, and managed to
His brother Ajay, 35, who was on the opposite side of the aisle in seat 11J, was among the 241 passengers who perished.
'He sees him [Ajay] everywhere,' said Keshave.
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'He speaks but he doesn't speak about the crash. His wife and his son [who is four] are there with him, supporting him.
Air India captain 'deliberately cut off fuel while staying eerily calm before crash
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'He is currently trying to have a normal life, but he is not going out too much.
'He is spending time at home with the family. He was living in the house in Diu with his brother before the crash.'
The miracle survivor
'Everything was visible in front of my eyes when the crash happened.
'I too thought that I was about to die, but then I opened my eyes and realised that I was still alive,' Vishwash said.
'It's a miracle I survived. I am OK physically but I feel terrible that I could not save Ajay.
'If we had been sat together we both might have survived. I tried to get two seats together but someone had already got one.'
The pair had been returning to Leicester after the end of the fishing season at their family business in Diu.
Their plan was simple: fly back to the UK on June 12 ahead of the monsoon. But the flight never made it.
Moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport, Flight AI171 lost altitude and smashed into a medical college hostel.
A total of 241 passengers and crew plus 19 people on the ground were killed in the tragedy, including 52 Brits.
The crash has become one of the deadliest involving British citizens in recent memory.
Investigators are now zeroing in on a chilling twist in the cockpit.
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Vishwash walked away from the disaster with just a few cuts and chest injuries
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Thick black smoke rising from a residential area after Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12
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The tail of Air India flight 171 after it crashed in a residential area near the airport
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Vishwash, left, and his brother Ajaykumar Ramesh, 35, had been in India on a business trip
According to flight data reviewed by US investigators, captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, may have
A preliminary summary of the black-box recording reportedly captures co-pilot Clive Kunder asking, 'Why did you cut off?', to which Sabharwal eerily replies, 'I didn't.'
But the switches were flipped off one second apart and then turned back on ten seconds later — too late to restart the engines.
It comes after reports the captain
In Vishwash's case, surviving has become its own form of torment.
'He feels guilty that he is the only one to have lived when everybody else, including his brother, died. It's a lot to live with,' another relative told The Sunday Times.
Key findings of Air India preliminary crash report
Dual engine shutdown
- fuel cutoff switches moved from 'RUN' to 'CUTOFF'
Confusion between pilots
- cockpit audio confirms one pilot asked 'why did you cut off', the other replied 'I didn't'
RAT deployed
- as seen in CCTV footage before the crash, the ram air turbine (RAT) which acts as a backup power source in case of emergencies had deployed
Engine relight attempted
- fuel switches were found returned to 'RUN' at crash site
32 seconds -
the time the
aircraft was airborne before it crashed
Thrust levers mismatch
- Thrust levers found at idle but black box data shows takeoff thrust was still engaged
Fuel test pass
- fuel was clean without any contamination
Normal take-off set-up
- Flaps and landing gear correctly configured
No bird activity
- clear skies, good visibility, light winds
Pilot credentials clear
- both medically fit and rested
No sabotage detected
- although FAA alerted over a known fuel switch vulnerability not checked by Air India
Aircraft loading -
the flight was within weight and balance limits
After escaping the burning wreckage, Vishwash reportedly
'My family member is in there, my brother and he's burning to death. I have to save him,' he pleaded with emergency workers.
Rescuer Satinder Singh Sandhu recalled: 'He was very disoriented and shocked and was limping.
'There was also blood on his face, but he was able to speak.
'He told the paramedics that he was flying to London when the plane fell and that he wanted to go back to save his family.'
Doctors who treated him at Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital said he was stable despite his physical wounds.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited him during his five-day stay in hospital before he was discharged and returned home.
Vishwash has since returned to the family's coastal village of Diu, where he is trying to recover with the support of his wife Hiral, their young son, and his extended family.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) meeting with Vishwash Kumar Ramesh at a hospital in Ahmedabad
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The Sun the met Vishwash at his family home in the coastal village of Diu
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