Gujarat plane crash: 1 passenger miraculously escapes!!
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Ahmedabad: A passenger, identified as Vishwaskumar Ramesh, on board the London-bound Air India flight that crashed near the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon survived the horrific incident, PTI reported, citing a doctor at the city civil hospital.
Ramesh, a Daman & Diu native, was in the `11A' seat of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which was carrying 242 passengers and crew. He was travelling to London with his brother.
Dr Shriq M, who works in the trauma ward of the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, told PTI that Ramesh has been admitted to the hospital.
It is learned that Ramesh said that Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise, and then the plane crashed. Everything happened quickly, according to him, says reports.
Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,” said Vishwash, a British national who survived the crash.#planecrash pic.twitter.com/3so2yk80Jk
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The aircraft crashed in a residential area here minutes after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport.
Debris from Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft (AI171) was seen scattered around the hostel and residential quarters of doctors at the BJ Medical College premises, where it crashed.
Videos that went viral after the horrific air crash, among the worst in Gujarat's history, also showed charred bodies in the debris.
The Ahmedabad-London flight with 242 passengers on board crashed soon after the take-off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport.
The area around the crash site is densely populated.
The entire accident site was cordoned off, and operations to rescue the survivors and extricate the bodies were underway.
The plane took off at 13.39 pm and crashed soon after into the hostel and residential quarters of doctors and staff members of BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital.
A part of the plane stuck out from the five-storey building.
"The plane was flying very low before it crashed," eye-witness Haresh Shah told PTI.
"As it crashed into the building, the sound was like a blast, and the plane and the building caught fire," he said.
