Single Survivor of the Air India Air accident was in seat 11A
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Air India Crash Survivor recounts his escape
He Man who moved away from Air India air accident As the only survivor of the disaster was sitting near an emergency exit in the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner While taking off from Ahmedabad, India, on the way to London on Thursday. His seat was 11a.
The seat is on the left side of the plane when facing the cabin. The man, the 40 -year -old British citizen Viswash Kumar RameshSaid the plane landed on the ground floor of a building where medical students lived. Ramesh said he opened his eyes, realizing that he was alive, and unbuttoned his seat belt before expelling himself from the plane, escaping with a burned hand.
“I could see that there was space outside the plane, so when my door broke I tried to escape through a small space and I did,” he said from his hospital bed.
An infographic shows where Ramesh was sitting. The image shows that the 11A seat was near the front of the plane, with some open space just in front.

Ron Bartsch, president of Avlaw Aviation Consulting, based in Sydney, told the Reuters news agency that the 11A seat “was obviously the safest seat” in this particular case because Ramesh was sitting adjacent to the emergency exit.
“But it is not always 11a, they are only 11a in this configuration of Boeing 787,” said Bartsch.
The seat settings vary according to the aircraft, and many factors are at stake when it comes to the survival of the shock.
“Each accident is different, and it is impossible to predict survival based on seat location,” said Mitchell News, director of the non -profit foundation based in the United States, according to Reuters.
Ramesh was in shock while moving away from the accident. He was later taken to a hospital in an ambulance.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti at the Civil Hospital of Ahmedabad told The News that Ramesh “was disoriented with multiple injuries throughout his body” but that seemed to be “out of danger.”

The Association press contributed to this report.
- Indian water
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