A British national has survived the Air India plane crash, according to Indian media.
Speaking to the Hindustan Times newspaper, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said he heard a “loud noise” around 30 seconds after take-off before the plane went down.
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“It all happened so quickly,” he said, adding he had received “impact injuries” on his chest, eyes and feet.
“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.”
Footage shared on social media showed a man that appears to be Vishwash limping away from the crash site and being led towards emergency services.
He told Indian media he had lived in London for 20 years.
He said that his brother Ajay was seated in a different row on the plane. “We visited Diu. He was travelling with me and I can’t find him anymore. Please help me find him.”
Separately, footage shared on social media showed a man limping away from the crash site and being led towards emergency services.
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The Air India flight AI171 departed Ahmedabad for London Gatwick at 1.38pm local time on Wednesday, carrying 242 passengers and crew members.
They included 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national.
According to flight tracking website Flightradar, a signal was last received from the aircraft less than a minute after it took off.
It crashed into a medical school’s residential quarters in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat state.
Initially, an Ahmedabad city police commissioner claimed there appeared to be no survivors.
The local police chief later said that at least 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site, according to Reuters.
Wednesday’s is the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in its history, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
The model, a widebody, twin-engine plane, has made five million journeys in the 14 years since its first passenger flight.
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