'Bodies all around me': Air India crash survivor recounts horrific escape
Kalpeshbhai Patni, 28, mourns as he sits outside the postmortem room at a hospital for his brother Akash Patni, 14, who died when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India, on June 13, 2025.
So far only known survivor, although police say there may be others
Family in Britain have been in touch with him
Ramesh Viswashkumar, the only known survivor out of the 242 people onboard an Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight and managed to jump out, police said.
Speaking from his hospital bed, the 40-year-old told Indian media that he was a British national and was travelling to Britain with his brother after visiting family in India.
