British father had been booked on doomed Air India plane but changed flights - and was due to fly in 11A ‘miracle seat'
Businessman Owen Jackson, 31, was placed in the same miracle Seat 11A as the sole survivor of the tragedy, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40.
Mr Jackson had been on a work trip to India and was scheduled to jet back on Thursday.
But his colleagues told him to take a Saturday flight as the job with call centre staff would take longer than planned.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals who died.
Flight AI171 struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.
Mr Jackson, from Saffron Walden, Essex, told The Sun: 'It's a shock. You hear every now and then of planes going down, but when it's the aircraft you're getting on two days later, it makes you think.'
Fellow Briton Mr Ramesh is still under observation in hospital for some of his injuries but will be ready to be discharged soon.
His wife Phillipa, 30, a teacher, did not know he had changed plans and spent two hours unsure whether her husband had died.
She said: 'I still feel affected by it now, to be honest with you, for days. I was just bursting into tears randomly.
'The way we felt is nothing compared to how the victims and their families are actually feeling, my heart really goes out to them, it's just awful.'
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