Air India was the only survivor in the 11A seat

the The man who moved away from Airline plane crashes Since the only survivor of the disaster was sitting near the emergency exit on Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner When I took off from Ahmed Abad, India, on its way to London on Thursday. His seat was 11a.

The seat is located on the left side of the plane when facing the cockpit. The 40 -year -old British man Viswash Kumar RameshShe said that the plane crash rises on the ground floor of a building in which medical students live. Ramish said that he opened his eyes, realized that he was alive, and dismantled his seat belt before forcing himself to get out of the plane – escaping with a burning hand.

“I was able to see that there was space outside the plane, so when my door was broken, I tried to escape across a small space and I did it,” he said from his bed in the hospital.

Infographic appears where Ramish was sitting. The image shows that the 11A seat was near the front of the plane, with some open spaces directly in front of it.

Ron Bartch, Chairman of the AVAW Aviation Consulting, said, said, headed by Sydney, Reuters news agency This 11A seat was “clearly the safest seat” in this particular case because Ramish was sitting next to the emergency exit.

“But it is not always 11A, it is only 11A in this formation of Boeing 787,” said Bartch.

Seat configurations vary depending on the plane, and many factors in playing when it comes to survival.

“Every different accident, and it is impossible to predict the ability to survive on the location of the seat,” said Mitchell Fox, director of the non -profit safety safety Foundation in the United States.

Ramish was shocked as he was walking away from the accident. He was later transferred to the hospital in an ambulance.

Dr. Daval Gillely at Ahmed Abad Civil Hospital told Associated Press that Ramish “was distorted with multiple injuries throughout his body” but it seemed “dangerous.”

Associated Press

He contributed to this report.