Relatives of those who were aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner waited at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad and Gatwick Airport outside London for word of their loved ones. But sadly, they heard the crash instead of their loved one.
Several reports say that “some locals would have also died” when the plane crashed into a residential area where offices were located.
The survivor, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national of Indian origin, is “doing well” but “psychologically disturbed” by the event, according to the medical director of the Civil Hospital, where he is being treated.
Ramesh told The Hindustan Times that “it all happened so quickly.”
“Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed,” he said.
Ramesh spoke to his father just before takeoff and then again after the plane crashed.
Ramesh was seen walking away from the crash with bruises only on his arms.
Talkjng to his rescuers he was said;
“I don’t know where my brother is; I don’t see any other passengers. I don’t know how I’m alive, how I exited the plane,”
“no words to describe”
“This is a miracle that he survived,” Nayan the brother to Ramesh said of Ramesh. “But what other miracle for my other brother?”
The London-bound Boeing 787-8 aircraft also struck a building where medical students were sitting down to lunch soon after it took off from Ahmedabad around 1:38 p.m., local time. It was the first crash of this kind of Boeing airliner.