Air crash tributes as survivor tells of fireball horror

THE British survivor of the Air India plane crash has spoken of the horror of watching people “dying in front of my eyes”.

- PRESS ASSOCIATION REPORTERS

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh told DD News “I still can’t believe how I survived” as he spoke from his hospital bed on Friday.

The 40-year-old told the broadcaster the plane felt like it was “stuck in the air” shortly after take-off before lights began flickering green and white - adding: “It suddenly slammed into a building and exploded.”

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner struck a medical college as it crashed in a fireball on Thursday, killing the other 241 people on board.

It is one of the deadliest plane crashes in terms of the number of British nationals killed, and the first involving a 787.

India’s civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu posted on X that the black box of the plane was recovered within 28 hours from the crash site.

Speaking to DD News about the crash, Mr Ramesh said: “I can’t believe how I came out of it alive.

“For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too. But when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realised I was alive. I still can’t believe how I survived.”