The British survivor of the Air India airplane crash attended the cremation of his brother, who was additionally on the ill-fated flight, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old businessman from Leicester, was returning to London on flight AI171 final week when it crashed right into a medical school constructing shortly after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport within the western state of Gujarat.
His brother, Ajay, was one of many 241 folks on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplane who died within the catastrophe. Mr Ramesh miraculously survived with comparatively minor accidents after leaping out of an emergency exit subsequent to his seat 11A.
Mr Ramesh was discharged from hospital on Tuesday night, whereas his brother’s stays have been handed over to the household within the early hours of Wednesday following a DNA affirmation of his identification.
“Vishwas’s household has already arrived right here from the UK. Following his restoration, we gave discharge to Vishwas at 7.30pm on Tuesday and his brother’s mortal stays have been handed over to the household after a DNA match,” mentioned Dr Rakesh Joshi, medical superintendent of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.
In a social media video, Mr Ramesh might be seen serving to carry his brother’s coffin to a cremation floor within the union territory of Daman and Diu, about 354km east of Ahmedabad.
The brothers have been returning to the UK on the Air India flight after spending time with their household in Diu city. He instructed the Hindustan Instances that his brother had been seated in a special row.
After the crash, a video confirmed Mr Ramesh strolling out of the airplane’s wreckage with minor cuts to his face and shoulder. “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise after which the airplane crashed. All of it occurred so rapidly,” he instructed native media.
“After I received up, there have been our bodies throughout me. I used to be scared. I stood up and ran. There have been items of the airplane throughout me. Somebody grabbed maintain of me and put me in an ambulance and introduced me to the hospital.”
Mr Ramesh has a spouse and son within the UK. Exterior the household dwelling in Leicester, his different brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, 27, mentioned: “We’re all devastated and in a state of shock in the meanwhile. Although one in every of my brothers survived, my different one is lacking.”
Describing his deceased brother, he added: “We might do every thing collectively and go in every single place collectively. There are not any phrases that may describe him as a human being. He’s one of many nicest guys ever. You possibly can ask anybody and they might all say the identical factor.”
