A British father miraculously survived the Air india plane crash believed to have claimed the lives of hundreds of people.
Astonishing footage below showed the passenger with visible injuries walking away from the scene of the crash. He reportedly sustained injuries to his chest, eyes and feet.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, spoke from the safety of a hospital bed hours after making an incredible escape from the doomed Gatwick-bound Flight 171 earlier today.
Police found the passenger, who had been in seat 11A when the jet came down, in a residential area in Gujarat, and transferred him to a nearby hospital for treatment.
‘Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,’ he told local media.
‘When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran.
‘There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital.’
Mr. Ramesh, who lives in London with his wife and child, was travelling home from seeing family in India when the plane crashed, hitting buildings housing doctors in the city of Ahmedabad.
On the ground, police said they had found another survivor in the hospital struck by the plane.
Authorities had said earlier that they believed there were no survivors on the flight. The plane had been carrying 242 passengers, including 53 Britons.
Those on board also included 159 Indian nationals, seven Portuguese and a Canadian. Eleven of those on board were children, including two newborns.
Rescue teams supported by the military have recovered 204 bodies from the scene so far, with casualties from the plane and the area surrounding the crash.
Aviation experts say that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner may have suddenly lost power ‘at the most critical phase of flight’ after takeoff.