‘I just sit in my room alone, not talking,’ Air India crash sole survivor calls himself luckiest man alive

Earlier this year, an Air India flight crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad in June, claiming 241 lives. The world watched in disbelief as one man walked out of the burning wreckage alive. That man, Viswashkumar Ramesh, now calls himself the “luckiest man alive.”

Months after the tragedy, Ramesh has now returned to Leicester, UK, the place he calls home, and has opened up about how life has been since the crash. Speaking to PA Media, Ramesh, who also lost his brother in the tragedy, described the days that followed as ones filled with “grief, sleepless nights, and an overwhelming silence.”

Air India crash sole survivor calls himself ‘luckiest man alive’

39-year-old Ramesh was among the passengers on the London-bound Air India flight AI171 when it crashed in Ahmedabad. Among