Air India: Incredible new video shows sole crash survivor walking away from the inferno

A video taken from a new angle shows the incredible moment British man Vishwash Ramesh walked away as the plane’s wreckage was engulfed in flames.

New footage has emerged of the moment the sole survivor of the Air India crash walked away moments after the plane’s wreckage went up in flames.

The video, taken from a different angle, shows British man Vishwash Ramesh clutching his phone as an inferno engulfs the doomed plane and the student’s hostel it crashed into.

Thick black smoke billows into the sky behind him as he walks onto a street. Panicked locals can be seen rushing around, calling for aid, and a man in a turban moves towards Mr Ramesh to explain that a plane has just exploded.

The first paramedic on the scene, Satinder Singh Sandhu, led him to safety.

A new angle shows the sole survivor of the Air India crash walking away as thick smoke from the explosion billows into the air. Picture: Supplied

A man in a turban guides him away from the scene and tries to explain that a plane has just crashed. Picture: Supplied

“The first person we spotted was the hostel guard who suffered primary burn injuries,” Mr Sandhu said.

“Even as he was dispatched in an ambulance as the first patient from the site, we saw a man coming from out near the building.

“We started shouting at him as he was disorientated and tried to go back to the site, even as the fire and smoke billowed.

“We later got to know that his brother was on the flight and he was trying to go back to check on him.

“But the team on the spot escorted him and took him to Civil Hospital.

“His survival is unbelievable.”

Mr Ramesh, 40, was taken to the 1200-bed Civil Hospital less than 2km from Ahmedabad airport where the doomed Air India flight had taken off from before crashing just 33 seconds later.

He was taken to hospital where he was visited by the Indian Prime Minister, and later, his father.

His dad has been at his bedside but has been too upset to talk since the tragedy in which he lost his youngest son Ajay.

Family friend Deepak Devjil said: “He is still grappling with the tragedy.”

Mr Ramesh’s wife and four-year-old son are travelling to India following the crash and the family will soon be reunited.

The story of Mr Ramesh’s escape has astounded the world - and left experts speculating over how he cheated death.

He was sitting in seat 11A when the plane came down, which is right by the emergency exit.

His brother, Ajay Ramesh, 35, was sitting five seats away at the other end of row 11, and tragically lost his life in the crash.

Mr Ramesh, whose family is from Leicester, told local media he was able to push open the plane’s fuselage and get out before the plane blew up.

But it is currently unclear whether the opening Vishwash “slipped out” of was the emergency door or a rupture in the aircraft’s fuselage.

Mr Ramesh walked away from the crash. The 40-year-old was the only survivor of an Air India Dreamliner that crashed en route to London soon after takeoff. Picture: Supplied

The seating plan of the Air India flight. Mr Ramesh was in seat 11A (circled). Picture: Supplied

Mr Ramesh has relayed his memory of the moment the plane went down, and his account could hold the key to figuring out what went wrong.

One detail in particular has piqued the interest of crash investigators.

The Brit revealed that the cabin lights began flickering just before the jet sank through the air.

He said: “When the flight took off, within five to 10 seconds it felt like it was stuck in the air.

“Suddenly, the lights started flickering - green and white.

“The aircraft wasn’t gaining altitude and was just gliding before it suddenly slammed into a building and exploded.”

Mr Ramesh’s flickering lights revelation came after a passenger who travelled on the plane the day before the crash claimed electrical parts such as the back-of-seat screens weren’t working.

Aviation experts have speculated that the reports of dodgy electrics could be a sign of a power failure, possibly explaining the crash.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission.