“God gave me life but took away all my happiness”: the only survivor of the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June, stated that he “lost everything” in this catastrophe and that he had to “fight” every day.
“I’m the only survivor. I still can’t believe it. It’s a miracle,” Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 39, said in an interview with the BBC broadcast on Monday.
But this Briton of Indian origin who lives in Leicester (central England) mainly recounted his trauma since the accident of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which crashed during takeoff in Ahmedabad, in northwest India. His younger brother was one of the victims.
“What I like is being alone at home”
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was sitting at the front left of the plane, in seat 11 A, very close to one of the emergency doors.
The images that showed him walking, stunned, near the wreckage of the plane went around the world. “I can’t say anything now” about the accident, he said. It’s too “difficult”.
He told Britain’s PA agency that he was having flashbacks “constantly” and couldn’t sleep for more than three or four hours.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh described his physical and mental pain (in his knees, shoulder, back and arm due to burns) as well as his feeling of loneliness.
“I sit alone in my room, without talking to my wife, to my son. What I like is to be alone at home,” he said.
The survivor claimed to have “lost everything,” his happiness, his brother who was his “strength.” He also spoke of the suffering of his family. “Every day is painful,” said Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
There were 242 people on board the Boeing 787.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh’s relatives said he had not received any medical treatment since his return to the UK.
A total of 242 people were on board the Air India Boeing 787 when the plane crashed. Nineteen city residents also died on the ground when the device exploded in a fireball in a district of the city.
In a preliminary report released in July, India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) revealed that the supply of jet fuel to the plane’s two engines was cut off just after takeoff.
This outage caused a sudden loss of power in the aircraft, which fell on buildings near the airport.
Source: BFM TV
