A British man has walked away from the wreckage of the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people in an extraordinary tale of survival.

Vishwashkumar Ramesh was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight when it crashed shortly after take off in Ahmedabad, western India.

Mr Ramesh's brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, told BBC News Vishwashkumar "has no idea how he survived" and escaped the plane as the only survivor.

There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian on the Gatwick Airport-bound flight, Air India said.

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Taking an international flight tomorrow, Friday 13th. My wife is in 11A. Not sure how to feel about this.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    At this point I'd be only booking non-Boeing flights.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I doubt this crash is Boeing's fault. The airframe in this crash was considered very safe.

    The more probable cause is Air India being lax in safety.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I made the mistake of looking at youtube comments on this story... Holy racism batman...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wasn't this the plot of Unbreakable, more or less, but with a train instead?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Exactly, although the events leading to the crash were more sinister

    Unbreakable movie spoilerThere is a flashback at the end of the movie showing Mr. Glass bombing an airplane and burning a hotel down, along with sabotaging the train Bruce Willis' character survived. It's implied that Mr. Glass had been responsible for other mass causality events to find someone Unbreakable as well.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That's a hell of a stiff upper lip.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Time to buy a fucking lottery ticket

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I’d book seat 11A for life….and get it as a tattoo.

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    I thought final destination had death chase folks who had a vision of an impending accident and they used that foreknowledge to avoid their fate? To be fair, I haven't seen any other than the first one, and that was through my fingers. (I am not a brave man)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    And if the flight is over an hour late you get back some of the money!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Final destination.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if there will be any other survivors damn

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