A new angle has come to light that shows the sole survivor of the Air India flight walking away from the wreckage.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was able to walk away with his life as the other 241 people on board tragically died in the incident.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner had just taken off from Ahmedabad, India, bound for London Gatwick, when it slammed into a hostel packed with trainee doctors and burst into flames less than a minute later.
New footage has captured the unbelievable moment he wandered into the street as a black pall of smoke towered behind him.
Locals scrambled to help. One man in a turquoise turban rushed in and guided the stunned Brit to safety.
Paramedics on the scene - part of a 35-ambulance response team - quickly ushered him away from danger.
Per The Sun, Satinder Singh Sandhu, the first paramedic to reach him, said: “The first person we spotted was the hostel guard who suffered primary burn injuries. Even as he was dispatched in an ambulance as the first patient from the site, we saw a man coming from out near the building.
"We started shouting at him as he was disorientated and tried to go back to the site, even as the fire and smoke billowed. We later got to know that his brother was on the flight and he was trying to go back to check on him. But the team on the spot escorted him and took him to Civil Hospital. His survival is unbelievable.”
Inside the plane, Vishwash had been seated in 11A - just five seats away from his younger brother, Ajaykumar Ramesh, who tragically did not make it.
The two had boarded the flight together. Vishwash’s position right next to the emergency exit is now being credited as a potential factor in his miraculous escape.
Speaking from his hospital bed, he recounted the nightmare. “I don’t believe how I survived. For some time I thought I was also going to die. But when I opened my eyes, I realised I was alive and I tried to unbuckle myself from the seat and escape from where I could.
"It was in front of my eyes that the air hostess and others died. The side of the plane I was in landed on the ground, and I could see that there was space outside the aircraft, so when my door broke I tried to escape through it and I did.”
He added to local media: “When the flight took off, within five to 10 seconds it felt like it was stuck in the air. Suddenly, the lights started flickering - green and white. The aircraft wasn't gaining altitude and was just gliding before it suddenly slammed into a building and exploded.”
Vishwash’s own words are still filled with disbelief: “Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise, and then we crashed. It all happened so fast. When I stood up, there were bodies everywhere. I just ran. I don’t even know how I got out of the plane.”
As of this writing, per the Daily Mail, doctors in the area are reporting that 270 bodies have so far been recovered from the area, with some reports putting the current death toll at 279.
Despite the horror, Father’s Day brought a small moment of joy - Vishwash spoke on the phone with his four-year-old son. His wife and child have since traveled to India, and the family is now being reunited.