Scenes from near the crash site of the Air India flight travelling to London, which was carrying more than 200 people. The plane crashed near the airport in a hospital residential complex in India's Ahmedabad western city.
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A British passenger who is the only survivor of the Air India crash said he had “no idea” how he escaped the disaster.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, from Leicester, who is married with a child, was in seat 11A next to the emergency exit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. His brother Ajay, 30, who was sitting in the same row on the other side of the aircraft, is believed to be among the dead.
Air India confirmed that 241 of the 242 people aboard flight AI171 had died, adding that it “offers its deepest condolences to the families of the deceased’. It had earlier said that 53 of the passengers on the boarding list were British citizens while others lived in the UK.
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