Lone survivors who cheated death in major plane crashes

WITH 241 passengers and crew confirmed dead in the crash of Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner right outside Ahmedabad airport, one passenger miraculously survived and literally walked out of the wreckage that killed everybody else on board.

- AGGAM WALIA

While fatal air crashes with a sole survivor seem to defy all odds, there have been around two dozen instances in the past 80 years where 50 or more people died in a major crash and just one person made it out alive. Among such crashes, the Air India flight carrying 242 people from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, which went down on Thursday, leads with t