Survivor of Air India crash jumped out of emergency exit, police say

An ambulance carrying the bodies of victims of the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane crash arrives at the hospital in Ahmedabad, India on June 12, 2025.

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Ramesh Viswashkumar, the only known survivor out of the 242 people onboard an Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight and managed to jump out, police said.

Speaking from his hospital bed, the 40-year-old told Indian media that he was a British national and was travelling to Britain with his brother after visiting family in India.

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