Air India sole crash survivor says he feels like 'luckiest man' alive but struggles with trauma

The lone subsister of June’s Air India clang successful the Indian City of Ahmedabad told BBC News helium feels similar the "luckiest man" live – but said the statement feels cruel arsenic helium mourns his member and struggles with the carnal and intelligence wounds near by the tragedy.

Viswashkumar Ramesh, 39, was the lone idiosyncratic to locomotion distant from the wreckage of the London-bound Boeing 787 aft it crashed moments aft takeoff successful Ahmedabad.

He told BBC News that portion his flight felt similar a "miracle," the nonaccomplishment of his younger member and the trauma that followed person near him incapable to instrumentality to mean life.

"I mislaid my member arsenic well. My member is my backbone," helium said. "Last fewer years, helium was ever supporting me."

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This handout photograph issued by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs shows Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah gathering British level clang subsister Viswashkumar Ramesh, 40, astatine a infirmary successful Ahmedabad. (Ministry of Home Affairs India via AP)

Since returning to his location successful Leicester, Ramesh has battled terrible post-traumatic stress, his advisors told the outlet, and has struggled to talk with his woman and 4-year-old son.

"Now I’m alone," helium said. "I conscionable beryllium successful my country alone, not talking with my wife, my son. I conscionable similar to beryllium unsocial successful my house."

Air India formation AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London's Gatwick Airport, crashed into a residential country called Meghani Nagar 5 minutes aft taking disconnected astatine 1:38 p.m. section time. There were 242 passengers and unit members onboard the flight.

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Firefighters enactment to enactment retired a occurrence astatine the tract of the clang successful Ahmedabad connected June 12, 2025. (Reuters/Amit Dave/TPX Images of the Day)

Video from the country showed fume rising from the wreckage arsenic Ramesh stumbled distant with insignificant disposable injuries. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aboriginal visited him successful the hospital, wherever Ramesh recalled unbuckling his seatbelt and crawling retired of the fuselage done an opening adjacent his seat, 11A.

Speaking beside section assemblage person Sanjiv Patel and household spokesperson Radd Seiger, Ramesh said reliving the clang remains excessively painful.

"I’m reasoning each night, I’m suffering mentally," helium told BBC News. "Every time is achy for the full family."

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The process of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner level that crashed is seen stuck connected a gathering successful Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters/Amit Dave/TPX Images of the Day)

Ramesh said helium continues to endure carnal symptom from leg, shoulder, knee, and backmost injuries that forestall him from moving oregon driving.

"When I walk, not locomotion properly, slowly, slowly, my woman helps," helium said.

His advisors said helium was diagnosed with PTSD portion hospitalized successful India but has not received further attraction since returning to the U.K.

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Aircraft landing cogwheel astatine the clang tract of Air India Ltd. formation AI171 successful Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, connected June 12, 2025. (Siddharaj Solanki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

They described him arsenic "lost and broken," calling for elder Air India officials to conscionable with him and different families affected by the crash.

"They’re successful crisis, mentally, physically, financially," Patel said. "It’s devastated his family."

Seiger said repeated requests for a gathering with the hose person been ignored oregon declined.

"The radical who should beryllium sitting present contiguous are the executives of Air India," helium said. "Please travel and beryllium down with america truthful that we tin enactment done this unneurotic to effort and alleviate immoderate of this suffering."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Air India for remark connected the matter.

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Still, Air India, owned by Tata Group, said successful a connection to BBC News that institution leaders person continued to sojourn families of victims and that an connection to conscionable Ramesh’s representatives "remains open."

The hose said attraction for Ramesh and others affected by the clang "remains our implicit priority."