{"id":72360,"date":"2025-06-14T00:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/miraculous-how-did-passenger-in-seat-11a-vishwash-kumar-ramesh-survive-air-india-crash"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:53:43","slug":"miraculous-how-did-passenger-in-seat-11a-survive-air-india-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72360","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miraculous\u2019: how did passenger in seat 11A survive Air India crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vishwash Kumar Ramesh must have acted fast to seize his unlikely chance to escape, say experts in crashes and safety<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/saw-people-dying-british-survivor-describes-air-india-plane-crash\">\u2018I saw people dying in front of my eyes\u2019: British survivor describes Air India crash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tony Cable, a former senior air crash investigator, has one piece of advice for Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India plane disaster: \u201cBuy a lottery ticket straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Briton walked away from the wreckage of flight AI171 after it crashed less than a minute after takeoff from Ahmedabad to London on Thursday, killing 241 other passengers and crew and dozens more on the ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/miraculous-how-did-passenger-in-seat-11a-vishwash-kumar-ramesh-survive-air-india-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vishwash Kumar Ramesh must have acted fast to seize his unlikely chance to escape, say experts in crashes and safety\u2018I saw people dying in front of my eyes\u2019: British survivor describes Air India crashTony Cable, a former senior air crash investigator, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3341,376,62,931,61,58,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-air-transport","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360\/revisions\/72361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}