Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old Briton, was visiting his family in India and returning home with his brother Ajay.
One survivor was found at the crash site of the Air India airline in Ahmedabad, the ANI news agency reported on Thursday, June 12, citing police. Earlier, the AFP news agency, citing the commissioner of the city police, wrote that "apparently, no one survived the crash." It is known that 242 people were on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. Among them are citizens of India, Great Britain, Portugal and Canada. Among them was the ex-governor of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani. The crash occurred in an area with residential buildings. According to a police spokesman in Ahmedabad, the plane crashed into a dormitory building for doctors.
The police reported that there were also victims among the residents of the houses on which the liner crashed. The country's health minister said that "many people" had died, but there is no exact data yet. dw.com.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on the social network X: "The tragedy in Ahmedabad shocked and saddened us. This is an unspeakable grief. At this sad hour, my thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy."
The Hindustan Times writes that the survivor of the Air India airliner crash turned out to be 40-year-old British citizen Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was visiting his family in India and returning to the United Kingdom with his brother Ajay. Ramesh was sitting in seat 11A.
"30 seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise, and then the plane crashed. Everything happened very quickly. Then there were bodies of people around me, the wreckage of the plane. Someone picked me up and carried me to an ambulance," Vishwash Kumar Ramesh told the Hindustan Times.









