A senior Indian police official told the country’s national news agency ANI on Thursday that one person — a man who was in seat 11A on the doomed Air India flight to London that crashed soon after takeoff in the city of Ahmedabad — survived the catastrophe.
Indian media outlets spoke with a man in a local hospital who said he was U.K. citizen Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the person who had been listed in that seat on flight AI171, according to the flight manifest shared by Indian authorities.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik, who initially told ANI there were no known survivors from the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed into the city, was later quoted by the same news agency as saying “the police found one survivor in seat 11A.” He said the person was “in the hospital and is under treatment.”
“Yes, one survivor is confirmed,” said Dhananjay Dwivedi, principal secretary of the Gujarat state health department, according to the French news agency AFP, without identifying the person.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital told The Associated Press that he had examined Ramesh and that while the crash survivor “was disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body… he seems to be out of danger.”
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