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A lone survivor, Ramesh Vishwash Kumar, from the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, has gone viral on social media with new video footage showing him walking away from the crash site. The footage captures the 40-year-old Indian-British national defying the odds after surviving a crash that claimed 241 lives.

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The video shows people running in panic with a big cloud of black smoke rising in the background. Many people look confused and are running around. In the chaos, a man comes out from where the crash happened in Meghani Nagar, Ahmedabad. The large smoke from the crash can be seen clearly behind him. Ramesh is seen looking back several times as he carefully walks away.

The video was taken on the day when a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flying from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick crashed. It happened just 33 seconds after takeoff on Thursday afternoon, hitting a medical college hostel building.

An earlier video showed a man with a shirt covered in blood walking away from the wreckage.

Who Is Ramesh Vishwash Kumar?

Ramesh was visiting his family in India and was going back to the UK with his older brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, who is 45 years old. Vishwash was sitting in seat 11A, and Ajay was sitting in another row.

“Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,” Ramesh said. 

"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."

The brothers had just visited Diu, and Ramesh said he hasn’t been able to find Ajay since the crash. "He was travelling with me and I can’t find him anymore,” he said.

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Ramesh lives in London with his wife and child. He got hurt on his chest, eyes, and feet in the crash. Right now, he is being treated at Civil Hospital in Asarwa.