How a survivor escaped death in Air India plane crash: Video
The nose and front landing gear of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner slammed into a canteen building where medical students were having lunch on the afternoon of Thursday, June 12.
Among them was 25-year-old junior doctor Mohit Chavda from Ahmedabad, who described his harrowing escape through dense, choking smoke after the plane tore through the dining hall.
"A gust of wind and smoke just entered from the windows into the hall where we were eating. Everybody panicked, first of all, because of the 'boom' of the sound which we heard from the blast, and there was almost zero visibility. We were unable to see who was sitting beside us. So we just ran from there," Mohit said.
A devastating air disaster in India has caused the grief of families mourning the loss of at least 279 lives after a London-bound passenger jet crashed. The victims in Ahmedabad spanned a wide spectrum of society, from a prominent political figure to a teenage tea vendor.
Of the 242 people on board, only one survived: a British national who miraculously emerged from the wreckage of the blazing aircraft on Thursday afternoon. His escape stands as the sole story of survival.
Among the victims was 68-year-old Vijay Rupani, a prominent figure in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party and the former Chief Minister of Gujarat.
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