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Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Air India plane crash had recently been fitted with a new engine, airline chairman reveals
The Air India plane that crashed and killed at least 270 people last week had one of its engines recently replaced, the airline's chairman has revealed. Flight AI171 crashed less than a minute after taking off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad last Thursday, striking a medical college hostel and killing 241 of the 242 people on board and dozens more on the ground. In an interview with an Indian news channel, Air India chairman N. Chandrasekaran said that both engines of the aircraft had 'clean' histories. He said: 'The right engine was a new engine put in March 2025. The left engine was last serviced in 2023 and due for its next maintenance check in December 2025.' As investigators sift through debris and decode the flight data from the plane's blackboxes, both of which were recovered this week, Chandrasekaran urged the public not to speculate on what caused the crash. 'There are a lot of speculations and a lot of theories. But the fact that I know so far is this particular aircraft, this specific tail, AI171, has a clean history. 'I am told by all the experts that the black box and recorders will definitely tell the story. So, we just have to wait for that.' It comes as the sole survivor of the crash, 40-year-old British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, admitted he was overcome with survivor's guilt after his brother Ajay died on the same flight. Vishwash said: 'It's a miracle I survived. I am OK physically but I feel terrible that I could not save Ajay.' He said he had tried to book two seats next to each other on flight AI171, which crashed into a densely populated part of the city of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff. But by the time he came to make the reservation, he was forced to pick two seats apart from each other in row 11. Vishwash said: 'If we had been sat together we both might have survived. 'I tried to get two seats together but someone had already got one. Me and Ajay would have been sitting together. 'But I lost my brother in front of my eyes. So now I am constantly thinking 'Why can't I save my brother?' Vishwash, who was sitting next to one of the plane's emergency exits, was able to crawl through a hole in the twisted fuselage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. His brother Ajay, who was sitting in seat 11J, tragically died alongside a further 240 passengers and crew. Footage exclusively obtained by MailOnline showed Vishwash tried going back to the site of the inferno to save his brother. Vishwash told the first emergency service worker on site: 'My family member is in there, my brother and he's burning to death. I have to save him.' Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu said: 'I walked nearer to Mr Ramesh, grabbed him by the arm and led him away to a waiting ambulance. 'I had no idea that he was a passenger on the plane and thought he was a resident of the hostel or a passer-by. '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.' Vishwash, who had plasters on his face, was yesterday seen carrying his brother's coffin at a ceremony in Gujarat. He was later seen crying in anguish and had to be taken away.
The Sun
18-06-2025
- General
- The Sun
Lone Brit survivor of Air India disaster says he'll be racked with guilt for life after missed chance to move bro's seat
PLANE crash survivor Vishwash Ramesh poses for The Sun as he appears in public for the first time since his incredible escape and declared: 'It's a miracle.' Vishwash, 40, was happy to show how he is recovering from the Air India disaster which killed 279 people. 15 15 15 15 But he revealed he is racked with guilt over the death of his brother Ajay on the flight. He had tried to arrange two seats next to each other in row 11 by the emergency exits. By the time he came to choose seats other passengers were sitting in part of the row so the brothers had to sit separately. Vishwash – in Seat 11A – survived the crash and was able to crawl through a hole in the twisted fuselage of the downed Boeing 787 Dreamliner. But Ajay was on the other side of the aisle in 11J and died along with 240 other passengers and crew. Married dad-of-one Vishwash is now struggling with survivors' guilt and said: 'If we had been sat together we both might have survived. 'I tried to get two seats together but someone had already got one. Me and Ajay would have been sitting together. 'But I lost my brother in front of my eyes. So now I am constantly thinking 'Why can't I save my brother?' 'It's a miracle I survived. I am okay physically but I feel terrible that I could not save Ajay.' Overcome with emotion he told friends: 'I wish I was not alive.' Moment miracle Brit survivor of Air India disaster heads BACK to burning wreck to save brother saying 'I have to save him' Vishwash is recovering in his family's home village of Diu, on the east coast of India, where he ran a two-boat fishing business with brother Ajay after inheriting it from their dad. The fishing industry grinds to a halt when the monsoon season starts in June so Vishwash and Ajay were returning to England. Vishwash was looking forward to being reunited with his wife Hiral and their four-year-old son at their home in Leicester when he and Ajay boarded flight AI 171 around 1pm last Thursday and buckled themselves into their seats on row 11. But moments after take-off he knew there was a problem. 15 15 15 He said: 'It felt like something got stuck and the lights started flickering. 'Everything happened in seconds. I realised we were going down.' The pilot, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 55, frantically radioed air traffic control to yell: 'No thrust… May Day…May Day.' Vishwash went on: 'The aircraft wasn't gaining altitude and was just gliding. 'After that, the plane seemed to speed up, before it suddenly slammed into a building and exploded. "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.' He unbuckled his seat belt and with everyone around him dead or dying he managed to crawl through an opening in the mangled fuselage. He added: 'Where I landed was closer to the ground and there was space too - and when my door broke - I saw that there was space. I saw an opening. I used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out. 'Everyone around me was either dead or dying. I still don't understand how I escaped." 15 15 15 He staggered out of the compound of a medical college as a huge fireball engulfed a hostel where 100 students and staff were having lunch in a canteen. Stunned locals and rescuers spotted him as he bravely tried to go back into the raging inferno to look for Ajay before paramedics led him to an ambulance. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital less than a mile away where he spent five days recovering during which time he was visited by Indian Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Doctors discharged him on Tuesday and he returned to the family home where his parents Bava and Manibhai are now supporting him along with his wife and child and younger brother Nayan, after flying in from their homes in Leicester. Friends and neighbours in Diu have also been celebrating his incredible escape – but are also grieving. As well as Ajay, another 14 people from the tiny island, a former Portuguese colony, died on the flight. 15 15 Vishwash's childhood friend Bipin Bamania, 52, said: 'He is getting great support from his family and they are obviously delighted he is alive. 'But they are all heartbroken as well over the loss of Ajay. 'I spoke to Vishwash after the crash and he said that he was in pain and needed to rest but he was basically okay. 'I am very happy that he survived but also very sad that his brother died. 'Vishwash spends part of the year here and part of it in England. 15 15 'He runs two fishing boats with his family but the fishing stops when the monsoon comes. 'So then he goes back to England. 'Vishwas is a very good person. He gets along with everyone very well. 'He has no animosity with anyone and when he is here in the village he likes to hang out with his friends. 'He is a great family man, too. He loves his wife and child very much. 'When his son was born he was delighted. During the months he is here in India he rings them twice a day every single day. 'That has always been his routine.' The grim process of identifying victims through DNA and dental records was continuing yesterday with 202now positively identified. A total of 157 bodies have been handed to families for funerals. A welcome from the world's luckiest man By Robin Perrie, Chief Foreign Correspondent WITH India's torrential monsoon rains beating down, the luckiest man in the world shuffled onto his veranda. The physical injuries Vishwash Ramesh suffered when flight AI 171 exploded as it crashed seconds after take-off are still visible on his face. But he can't celebrate his miracle escape because of the hidden mental trauma - sitting eight seats away in the same aisle was his younger brother, Ajay, who perished along with everyone else on the flight. And survivors' guilt is weighing so heavily on his shoulders you fear he will never shrug it off. I met Vishwash at the brightly-coloured, three-storeyed family home in the coastal village of Diu where he is now recuperating after five days in hospital. He arrived back there late on Tuesday and within hours was carrying his brother's coffin as the village turned out to mourn his passing. Under doctors' orders, Vishwash returned early from the funeral to rest again at home. Surrounded by grieving family members, he was happy to come out of the house to greet us. As women cooked chapattis on outside fires he posed for pictures before limping back inside, the trauma clearly hanging heavy over him. Friends had already told me how he is a hospitable, amiable man who never has a bad word to say about anyone. That shone through as he made us welcome in his home, but just as evident thanks to his soft handshake was the trauma he has suffered - physical and mental. The luckiest man in the world barely had enough strength left to keep hold of my outstretched hand.
The Sun
13-06-2025
- General
- The Sun
Girl left ‘tasting jet fuel' in ocean & horror 2-mile fall – miraculous plane crash survivors…& why guilt haunts victims
SOMETIMES, in the midst of disaster, miracles happen. Just moments after taking off, Air India Flight AI171, bound for Gatwick, came plummeting to the ground in a terrifying fireball killing all on board - save one lone survivor. 13 13 Astonishing footage showed Brit Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who sat in seat 11A, walking away from the crash before rescue workers greeted him in astonishment. He was even able to produce his boarding pass before being whisked off to hospital, where he is being treated for minor injuries to his chest, eyes, and feet. Given the scale of disaster when plane crashes happen, it is very rare only one person makes it out alive. There are only a handful of people who can say they were lucky enough to be the sole survivor. But many are left with scars - both physical and mental - traumatised by memories of plummeting from the sky, and haunted by the sudden loss of their family members. Speaking to the media shortly after his miraculous survival was confirmed, Vishwash said: 'Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. 'It all happened so quickly. When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me. " Dr Marianne Trent, clinical psychologist and author of the Grief Collection, said Vishwash is likely to suffer from survivors guilt. She said: "There's no real sense why that should have been the one seat where the sole survivor sat. "People often swap seats on planes and he might have a sense of 'why me?'" Brit survivor WALKS AWAY unscathed from Air India plane crash after jumping from flaming jet 'America's Orphan' Vishwash isn't the only person to have walked away from a plane crash, losing family members in the process. At just four years old, Cecelia Crocker became the sole survivor when Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just moments after taking off from Detroit, in 1987. The other 154 people on board were killed, as were two people on the ground. But Cecelia Crocker survived - becoming known as 'America's Orphan'. "I think about the accident every day," said Crocker, now 42. "It's kind of hard not to think about it when I look in the mirror. I have visual scars, my arms and my legs and I have scars on my forehead." 13 13 13 Though Cecelia doesn't remember the incident herself, her mum, dad, and six-year-old brother David were all killed. It is believed that Cecelia's mum, Paula, shielded her. "When I realised I was the only person to survive that plane crash, I was maybe in middle school, high school maybe," Crocker said. "Being an adolescent and confused, so it was just extra stress for me. I remember feeling angry and survivor's guilt. Why didn't my brother survive? Why didn't anybody? Why me?" Dr Trent added that these feelings can linger on for years and affect every aspect of their lives. "You might not feel worthy of people's good thoughts and sympathy because you're not the one who died,' she said. "People with survivor's guilt withdraw into themselves, their world becomes smaller, there's an impact on their functioning, their ability to get things done.' Clinging for life Back in 2009, a Yemenia Airways flight plummeted into the Indian Ocean with its engines at full throttle. All 152 on board were killed - except 12-year-old Bahia Bakari, who was on the way to her grandfather's wedding. She was left drifting in the water for hours with 'the taste of jet fuel' in her mouth, and only a piece of debris to cling on to. Speaking to a French court, she recalled the moment things started to go wrong. 'I started to feel the turbulence but nobody was reacting much, so I told myself it must be normal,' said Bahia. 'I felt something like an electric shock go through my body. There's a black hole between the moment when I was seated in the plane and the moment I found myself in the water.' 13 13 13 She remembers trying to climb up on to the wreckage, but lacked the strength to do so in the choppy waters. It was only in the hospital that she was told she was the lone survivor. Jungle fall Others who survived found themselves not in the water but in thick jungle - yet just as far from civilisation as anyone stuck in the ocean. Juliane Koepcke was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother in 1971 when her plane was struck by lightning. Aged just 17, she survived not only a two-mile fall to the ground but a ten day trek through the Amazon. After flying into a dark cloud, her plane became engulfed by lightning, she recalled. 'My mother and I held hands but we were unable to speak. Other passengers began to cry and weep and scream,' she told the BBC. 'My mother said very calmly: 'That is the end, it's all over'. Those were the last words I ever heard from her. 'The plane jumped down and went into a nose-dive,' added Juliane. 'It was pitch black and people were screaming, then the deep roaring of the engines filled my head completely. 'Suddenly the noise stopped and I was outside the plane. I was in freefall. I could see the canopy of the jungle spinning towards me.' Alone with a broken collarbone and deep cuts to her legs, and wearing only a short, sleeveless mini-dress and white sandals, she began to walk. 13 Only a small bag of sweets kept her from total starvation. Initially thinking she was hallucinating, Juliane came across a boat and a hut where she spent the night, pulling maggots out of a wound in her upper arm, before finally a group of men found her the next day and took her back to civilisation. Broken bones and collapsed lung Juliane's story has parallels to that of Annette Herfkens, who, aged 31, spent eight days in the Vietnamese jungle by herself awaiting rescue. After Vietnam Airlines flight 474 dropped from the sky in 1992, killing the other 30 people on board, Annette was left with twelve broken bones, her jaw hanging off and a collapsed lung. How miracle Brit may face mental battle THOUGH lucky to be alive, Brit Vishwash Kumar Ramesh may struggle with the mental impact of yesterday's Air India crash for decades, Dr Marianne Trent, clinical psychologist, told The Sun. "Post trauma people often struggle to sleep, have intrusive thoughts and there will be triggers such as noises and smells of the fire, the smoke, booking future holidays," she said. "All those stories of the people he met along the way, or maybe those he didn't take the time to talk to, will be replaying in his mind. He will be second guessing everything he did." Dr Trent said he may even feel guilt that he walked away with minor injuries. She said: "He may just feel grateful to survive and have walked away but it's very strange that only one person survived. "We need to allow him to feel what he's feeling. Survivors of fatal car crashes who escaped with minor injuries might wish they'd broken a leg or had something physical to show for their life changing experience. "They might ask 'why don't I look different.. How can I look like the same person?' It's harder for people to empathise if you look the same way too." Dr Trent added that memories of his brother might be forever entwined with the horror of the crash. "His experience will be overlapped by grief and trauma. "Usually if you think of a brother there are thoughts about songs you might have heard growing up together, or things you did, nice memories. "But when someone dies the whole relationship changes and those thoughts can make you feel really awful and send you right down into the depths again. "The fact this is all being played out on an international stage will also be extremely hard for him and he will need a lot of psychological help to come to terms with what has happened." Her plane had crashed into a mountain ridge and she now lay surrounded by the ripped-apart fuselage, with a dead stranger across her. 'That's where you have fight or flight - I definitely chose flight,' she told the Guardian. 'I stayed in the moment. I trusted that they were going to find me. I didn't think, 'What if a tiger comes?' I thought, 'I'll deal with it when the tiger comes.' I didn't think, 'What if I die?' I thought, 'I will see about it when I die.'' Crawling along by her elbows, she managed to capture water with parts of the plane's insulation until a rescue party carried her down in a hammock. Self-harm pain In all these cases, only one passenger made it out alive. But when the plane's pilot is the sole person spared death, the feelings of survivor's guilt can be even worse. Jim Polehinke was co-pilot aboard Com Air flight 5191, which crashed seconds after takeoff from Lexington, Kentucky in 2006. 'I've cried harder than any man has ever cried, or any man should be able to cry,' he said. 'My wife was there to support me to where I could just put my head on her shoulder and cry. 'It's that constant struggle where my inner voice wants to keep going forward. "The good voice says, 'Yeah, come on, you have the inner strength to do that,' but the bad voice says, 'No, stay here, have another shot of liquor.'' Dr Trent also highlighted how harmful behaviours can become a crutch for people to deal with survivor's guilt. She said: "Sometimes people become a risk to themselves through non intentional self injury, drinking too much, not showing and looking after themselves, taking recreational drugs to cope.'
Daily Mail
27-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
I escaped the Liverpool parade crash by INCHES after diving out of the road - one lucky thing saved my life but now I'm wracked with guilt
A guest on Good Morning Britain opened up about how she escaped the Liverpool parade crash by mere inches after diving out of the road - but confessed that she's now riddled with guilt. Chelsea Yuen appeared on the ITV show on Tuesday to talk to Ed Balls, 58, and Susanna Reid, 54, about the terrifying event, which took place on Monday in the northern city. Several people have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans on Water Street during their Premier League victory parade yesterday (27 May 2025) evening. Eyewitness Chelsea heard the driver slamming his horn, which prompted her to roll out of the way, and although she's grateful to be alive, she is suffering with survivor's guilt. Recalling what had happened, Chelsea said: 'When the car came plummeting down it was inevitable it was going to hit people.' She added: 'Absolutely everybody was walking up the street. Chelsea Yuen (right) appeared on the ITV show on Tuesday to talk to Ed Balls, 58, and Susanna Reid, 54, about the terrifying event which took place on Monday in the northern city 'When we heard the beeping of the driver that was coming through the crowds, that's when we looked up and seen the car coming towards us. 'We just narrowly missed being hit and we were able to jump out the way into as much safety as we could be. 'Then unfortunately it carried on and continued into the other people behind us.' Ed then pointed out that neither Chelsea or her family members were hurt, but that it was a traumatic experience that will haunt her forever. Chelsea said: 'We were grateful that we were safe, we weren't hurt but then we almost feel guilty now that children were hurt. 'The tragedy is a lot worse than we thought it was at the time. 'We didn't know what it was, we didn't know whether it was a tower or somebody or drunk or even somebody who had a heart attack while drinking. 'We just didn't know what it was. 'So we were angry at first, then scared when we started seeing the people lying on the floor as we walked up the street a bit further.' Susanna said: 'Obviously, shocking that four people got trapped underneath the car and firefighters had to lift the car and one of those people was a child. 'That makes it so much more upsetting, doesn't it? 'This is what is so shocking. 'It's a family event, families everywhere, prams, kids on their dads' shoulders. 'Although it's an obscene amount of people that have been hurt, seriously hurt, I'm surprised there wasn't more. 'But it hurts more that there were kids involved.' British police said they had arrested a 53-year-old white male, and that the incident was not terrorism related. The Liverpool Echo reported that a total of 47 people were injured, with 27 taken to hospital, including an adult and a child in serious condition. Four people are still 'very, very ill in hospital,' Steve Rotheram, the city's metro mayor, told the BBC. 'There are still four people who are very, very ill in hospital and we are hoping of course that they pull through very, very quickly, he said. Nick Searle, a spokesman for the region's fire and rescue service said four people who were trapped under the minivan, including a child, were rescued by firefighters. Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
The Sun
21-05-2025
- The Sun
Man's head left hanging on by just his skin after he was internally decapitated in horror crash
A MAN was told he was the most broken patient paramedics had ever seen after being internally decapitated in a car crash. Simon Clark, now 45, suffered severe brain trauma, more than two dozen major fractures, multiple organ damage and tore a two inch hole in the main artery carrying blood from his heart. 5 5 Tragically the accident also claimed the life of his partner Lindy, who had been driving when their car swerved into the path of an oncoming car on a blind bend. Simon doesn't remember much more than a loud bang and intense pain in his left hip. His next memory was of lying in the long grass with rain falling on his face. 'I took the full impact on my left side which is why I sustained so many broken bones,' he says. 'I shattered the top three vertebrae and completely separated my skull from my spine. My head was only held on by skin, muscle, nerves and other tissue. Basically, my head was flopping around like a chicken with its neck broken.' Simon was put into a coma at the scene by the medics of the Great Western Air Ambulance and remembers nothing until two months later where he received the devastating news that the love of his life had died in the collision. Paralysed and unable to speak, he was also told that he would never walk, eat or breathe independently again. 'I just had to lay there and listen to the never-ending horror story that was my prognosis,' he says. 'My brain was screaming at this point. I lurched from extreme survivor's guilt to wanting to end it all. 'I even tried to bite my tongue off at one point but luckily I didn't have the strength to do much more than make it very sore. 'Not being able to pick my sons up for a cuddle rips me to pieces,' says dad after crash 'The worst moments were lying in that hospital bed not long after leaving ICU, when all of the staff had finished for the day and my visitors had left. 'I would be left there in the dark, unable to move, unable to do anything for myself, barely able to speak. I had spent the majority of the day counting the dimples in the ceiling tiles and now I just had the beeping of the machines for company.' Simon spent the long hours in total anguish and turmoil, wishing for death to take him. 'I truly wanted to die. Just to end the pain and torture of knowing my life was over and I'd never got to say goodbye to Lindy,' he says. 'Just bad luck' The cause of the crash in October 2019 will remain forever a mystery. Police told Simon his partner was not speeding, had not been drinking and had done nothing suspicious. They concluded it was a genuine accident and 'just bad luck.' Physically shattered and emotionally traumatised, he struggled to see any way forward. But as the days and weeks wore on, Simon made a remarkable discovery. He found that he could control his thoughts and in doing so, could decide to recover beyond a life of living in a hospital bed. I made the firm decision that I would walk out of the hospital on my own two feet without any assistance, within six months of the accident Simon Clark 'I decided I would not stop until I was fitter and stronger than I was before the accident. I made the firm decision that I would walk out of the hospital on my own two feet without any assistance, within six months of the accident,' he says. Incredibly he did just that. 'I had nothing else to work with so I began to try and regain control of my mind,' he says. 'I didn't have use of my body anymore so I had to try and save a tiny piece of Simon. I built a little fort in my mind where Simon could hide from all the horrible things that were happening. 'After many months of mental anguish and physical pain my body started to respond. "At first it was just being able to blink, when I had mastered that I was able to communicate with my family by spelling out words by blinking while they ran their fingers along a board with letters printed on it. "Then I moved on to trying to wiggle a finger, and then maybe move my foot. It was an incredibly slow, frustrating period of slowly trying to move every single limb and then building up the strength so I could use them. "Learning to walk again has been the most painful of all of my recovery." 'Nordic walking helped me' After he left hospital, Simon discovered Nordic Walking thanks to the help of his physiotherapist Melissa Domaile. The method is an enhanced walking technique that uses poles to work your entire body not just your legs. 'So many physios told me all the things I would never do again,' he says. 'But Melissa took the time to get to know me and she saw my drive, she saw my love of the mountains and what I was willing to give to get back to them, to have a full and meaningful life again. 'Nordic Walking helped me walk a few paces without getting out of breath, which turned into walking around a football field then walking the Everest Base Camp Trail less than five years after the accident.' He has also trekked the Icelandic Highlands, climbed Mount Toubkal in Northern Africa and is now training to walk to the North Pole, determined to show that recovery - while painful and slow - is possible in the face of overwhelming odds. 5 5 5 Simon, who had been working as an estate agent at the time of the crash, is still far from well. He is in constant pain, struggles with exhaustion and carries deep emotional scars from the accident. He suffers from PTSD and crippling bouts of anxiety and depression, as well as nerve pain and brain damage. 'I still have a lot of problems with my heart and lungs,' he says. 'I'm working on about a third of my lung capacity and my heart beats frantically which can result in me passing out. 'I was warned by cardiologists not to let my heart rate go above 120 bpm as it will most likely cause a heart attack. Unfortunately just walking across a car park puts my heart above that. 'While training I am often in the 150-160 bpm range and on the way to Everest I pushed to 186 bpm. 'I will also need to travel to Svalbard very soon to do some cold weather testing and training to see how my body responds to extreme cold as I currently don't feel any temperature changes. For me all weather conditions feel like spring.' But Simon has to keep going. He knows moving his body is excellent therapy. 'The best recovery from all of this has been physical exercise, learning to get my life back and rebuilding my body, then simply just getting out into nature,' he says. 'A walk in the hills cures most problems and those that it can't, it puts into perspective.' How to cope with the effects of a traumatic event Accessing and accepting support from others It is very comforting to receive physical and emotional support from other people. It is important not to reject support by trying to appear strong, or trying to cope completely on your own. Talking to others who have had similar experiences, or understand what you have been through, is particularly important - it can allow you to release pent up feelings and enable barriers to be removed and closer relationships to develop. Some friends may be reluctant to push their support forward even though they would like to help - do not be afraid to ask and say what you want. Research has shown that social support and community networks are important and can facilitate psychological recovery. Taking time out for yourself In order to deal with your feelings, you will at times find it necessary to be alone, or just be with close friends or/and family. Confronting what has happened Confronting the reality of the situation, e.g. by talking to a friend, can (instead of will) help you come to terms with the event. Staying active Helping others, keeping busy, maintaining usual routines where possible can be helpful. Returning to your usual routine It is usually advisable to return to your usual routine as soon as possible after the event in order to avoid incubation and magnification of fear while away from the situation. Source: NHS
