Amid all the horror of the Air India plane crash, this story of British national Vishwashkumar Ramesh from Leicester, who was in seat 11a, being the sole survivor and walking away with just a few scratches, is truly astonishing.
The survival of the lone man, Ramesh Viswashkumar, isn’t some divine intervention, because no divine force selectively spares one life by sacrificing over 290 others.
His survival was a mix of instinct, sheer luck, and a random miracle of physics. He happened to be near the emergency exit, realized the plane was going down, opened the door, and jumped.
By then, the aircraft was already skimming close to the ground and had slowed significantly. His fall became survivable, maybe he landed on grass, bushes, a slope, or even concrete at just the right angle. Sometimes, the human body doesn’t shatter, it bends, bounces, or just gets lucky.
To walk away from a crash like that, every single variable has to align perfectly, and once in a million times, they do.
Life is deeply unpredictable. Just moments before the Air India Boeing crash, two UK nationals recorded a video, smiling—unaware of what lay ahead.
