Stunning new video of sole Air India plane crash survivor as he walked out of wreckage

The sole survivor of an Air India plane crash was seen in a shocking new video walking away from the fiery disaster.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh is seen in the video footage moments after Flight AI171 crashed in Ahmedabad, Western India, last week. The British national was flying with his brother, seated next to him in the plane, who did not survive. In all, 270 people perished in the crash, with 241 aboard the Air India flight bound for Gatwick, Great Britain, and another 29 who were killed on the ground.

The video of Ramesh shows him as he “walked out with his phone in his hand,” plumes of smoke billowing up into the sky behind him.

અવિશ્વસનીય પરંતુ સત્ય!

અમદાવાદ પ્લેન ક્રેશમાં ચમત્કારિક રીતે બચેલા રમેશ વિશ્વાસનો વધુ એક વિડિઓ સામે આવ્યો.

દુર્ઘટના થયા પછી હાથમાં ફોન સાથે ચાલીને બહાર નીકળ્યો રમેશ વિશ્વાસ. #AhmedabadPlaneCrash pic.twitter.com/94WDepkKjn

— Sagar Patoliya (@kathiyawadiii) June 16, 2025

Another video showed him limping toward an ambulance, with apparent burns to his arm.

A passenger on seat 11A survived the Air India crash.

He’s a British national called Vishwash Kumar Ramesh. pic.twitter.com/xctfVBuPA4

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) June 12, 2025

“I don’t know how I managed to escape,” he told a reporter from the hospital where he was treated.

“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,” he said. “I just walked out.”

“I still don’t know how I’m alive.”

The sole survivor of the Air India crash, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, shares his heartbreaking account from the hospital. A story of survival, loss, and unimaginable courage.#Survivor #AirIndiaCrash #AI171 #Interview #News #airindia #India… pic.twitter.com/HAl91nCKIj

— BritAsia TV (@BritAsiaTV) June 13, 2025

“He is doing very well and will be ready to be discharged anytime soon,” Dr. Dhaval Gameti told the Associated Press.

“It’s nothing short of a miracle. I have reached out to the family and I’m choosing to respect their privacy at this trying time,” Shivani Raja, a British member of parliament, told CNN last week. “But as you may have picked up … one of his brothers was also on that flight who sadly didn’t survive.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.

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