Survivor of crash jumped out of emergency exit, say police

Mr Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the only known survivor out of the 242 people on board an Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight and managed to jump out, police said.

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Speaking from his hospital bed, the 40-year-old told Indian media that he was a British national and was travelling to Britain with his brother after visiting family in India.

"When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital," Mr Vishwash told the Hindustan Times.

Social media footage shown on Indian news channels showed a man in a bloodstained white T-shirt and dark trousers limping on a street and being helped by a medic.

The man had bruises on his face and a goatee, resembling photographs of Mr Vishwash in hospital after the crash that were published by local media.

Reuters could not immediately verify the video, in which people gathered around the man and asked him where were the other passengers, to which he replied "they are all inside".

A photo of Mr Vishwash's boarding pass shown online by the Hindustan Times showed that he was in seat 11A of the plane bound for Gatwick Airport.