"He Walked Away From it" - One Man Survives Worst Aviation Disaster In A Decade

Australia wakes up this morning to the horrific news of aa plane crash in India where more than 240 passengers were killed instantly soon after take off, and the phenomenal story of how one many not only survived the accident, but walked away with minor injuries.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
App eleven A. What does that mean to you? Max?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It now is the key to survival.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yep, because if you've woken up this morning, you would
have seen all over your social media everywhere that there
has been the worst aviation disaster in a decade has
just happened overnight from India. They're on their way to London.
In the first thirty seconds the plane went down.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
That looks like all the power sort of goes out.
It just there's vision of it. You can see it crashing,
it's heading up and then it just drops.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Two hundred and forty two people on board, two hundred
and forty one of them died. Isn't that insane? The
person that lived was sitting at eleven A.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh is his name. He was sitting in
that seat and Ramesh was spotted. While there is carnage, chaos,
there's all of the ambulances, the fire, there's people screaming,
all of that going on, he walked away.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Like Nicholas Cage in a movie.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
He's walking.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
There's vision of h this man on the street walking
with some cuts and scratchy.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
How how did he survive? Eleven A That is the
exit road, It.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Is an exit row.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
They're on a Boeing seven eight seven eight, which is
a Dreamliner.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So you can actually see footage, like obviously all this
is all happening now, so stuff will unravel today. But
there's footage inside the plane of someone's hands like pressing
the buttons, going this isn't working. It's so weird. Nothing,
there's no power in there those How has that even
popped up online? If these people are all dead?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I know people have just sent it while they're on
the tarmac because it's straight after, straight after takeoff, and
it's crashed into a student hostel. So there was the
two hundred and forty one deaths on the plane. There's
at least fifty more on the ground as well. Thirty
seconds after takeoff, loud noise, plane crashed.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
How do you even imagine? How? Like it's so hard
to imagine how you would feel being him? Why did
I live? Why did I leave? And everybody else died?
Like would you feel guilty?

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's honestly like real life.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I know. And also you know when you're on a plane,
and they do like the announcement of like this is
what you do if the plane goes down. I've been
on a million planes and I still out when they
talk to me.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Just the brace.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I see the vision and you see the amount of
jet field. There's something got a whole you can do
about that.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
There are lots of reports, there's more information coming here
about this man.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
All the time.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
He was heading to London to visit family. His brother
lives in London and they've already managed to speak to
his brother on the news. After waking from this crash,
he was able to video call his family and speak
to them in Britain, confirming he was alive.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Here's his brother who was speaking earlier. We don't have
any love dates.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
One of the brother when the plane crushed is like,
I can't see my other brother. I don't see another
passengers or anything. They were both so on the and said.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
So it sounds like he was on the plane with
another brother as well.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Oh so they lost one of their brothers.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
That sounds like I was.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was wondering who was sitting next to him? Why
did that person not survive? Because if if you're opening
that door, you drag the person next to you out
with you, wouldn't you?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, you would, But that he's already spoken. That's they've
already spoken to this man. They've rushed into the hospital
on the check and some of the grat We don't
have the audio of it, but he said, when I
got up, there were bodies around me.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I was scared.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I stood up, I ran bits of plane all around me.
Someone grabbed a hold of me, put me in an ambulance,
took me to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Oh my god, do you know the most frightening thing?
This plane was in Australia five days ago?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, it was in Melbourne last week.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh my god? How does this happen? Do you ever
feel this is my morbid brain kicking in, But do
you ever feel like it's okay? So it's been ten years,
a mat three seventy. They happened quite close, like there
was big plane crashes years ago. Do you ever go
where d you? For one? Do you ever think that
when you get on a plane.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, but then you could think the same Let's get
you out of your morbid brain. You can think the
same thing every single day when you jump in your car.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, but I don't. I think of it in planes.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Time happen all the time. This is You're way more
likely to die in your car.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I know, I know, I know, but still it's like
this is I think it's more terrifying. I think the
thought of a plane going down anyway, it's horrible. And
more details will come out today.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
The vision's crazy, but the story is just insane. One
man walking away from a plane crash where two hundred
and forty one others died crazy