‘I Got Up and Ran’: One Man Survives Plane Crash That Killed 241

As Air IndiaFlight AI171 descended toward its doom on Thursday, Ramesh Vishwaskumar sat in the first row of economy class — headed for one of the most harrowing and luckiest moments of his life.

After the Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner slammed into a densely populated district of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, Vishwaskumar managed to get out of the plane. He was injured, but alive. All the 241 others on board had died.

Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah meets with plane crash survivor Ramesh Vishwaskumar at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India, in this handout photo released by the Ministry of Home Affairs India, on June 13.

Source: Indian Ministry of Home Affairs/Indian Ministry of Home Affairs

A video that has since gone viral on social media shows a slightly bloodied man walking near the crash site, surrounded by an ...