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Heartbreaking Moment As Sole Air India Survivor Limpingly Carries Brother’s Coffin At Funeral
Today, the lone survivor of the catastrophic Air India accident carried his brother’s casket, who perished in the terrible event.
At the ceremony in Gujarat, 40-year-old Leicester native Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, held up his brother Ajay’s casket while limping and with plasters on his face.
Both brothers were on board AI171, which crashed last week in a heavily populated area of Ahmedabad, a city in west India.
Just before the wreckage was consumed by flames, Vishwash, who was seated on seat 11A, managed to escape.
However, his brother, with whom he had been visiting in India, was tragically killed along with 240 other people on the Gatwick-bound jet and scores more on the ground, even though he was only one seat over.
Several mourners, including his brother Vishwash, carried Ajay’s casket, which was decorated with vibrant flowers.
The man in mourning declines the assistance of another mourner who seems to be trying to assist him in carrying the casket. Then, Vishwash was observed limping on the support of the mourner.
Later, Vishwash was observed sobbing in agony and needed to be taken away.
At 1:17 p.m. local time, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed, and at 1:38 p.m., it was spotted soaring over Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
However, it lost all power in a matter of seconds and collided with a residential neighbourhood in Gujarat state’s Ahmedabad city.
The plane crashed in a fireball on its way to London Gatwick.
The jet sent smoke, fire, and debris hundreds of feet into the air as it crashed into the BJ Medical College doctors’ dorm.
Vishwash attempted to return to the scene of the fire to save his brother, according to footage that MailOnline exclusively obtained.
Vishwash told the first emergency service worker on site, “My family member is in there, my brother and he’s burning to death. I have to save him.”
Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu said, “I walked nearer to Mr Ramesh, grabbed him by the arm and led him away to a waiting ambulance. I had no idea that he was a passenger on the plane and thought he was a resident of the hostel or a passer-by.”
“He was very disoriented and shocked and was limping. There was also blood on his face, but he was able to speak.”
“He told the paramedics that he was flying to London when the plane fell and that he wanted to go back to save his family.”
Investigators of the fatal Air India disaster think the doomed aircraft was utilising an emergency generator.
The initial discovery has sparked enquiries about whether the aircraft’s engines were operating correctly when it took off.
When the two experienced pilots on board allegedly lost power in both engines, the Boeing was only 400 feet above the ground.
After 17 excruciating seconds of fumbling with the controls, their cutting-edge aircraft crashed into a medical campus full of doctors, sending a firestorm skyward.
Whether the plane lost or reduced thrust is one of the main questions being investigated in the ongoing tragedy investigations.
Ram air turbines are emergency equipment found in aeroplanes. These are tiny propellers that serve as a backup generator by dropping from the bottom of the aircraft’s fuselage.
In the event that both engines fail or the hydraulic system pressures drop, these emergency systems often activate automatically while in flight. They can also activate in the event that the instruments in the cockpit lose power.
According to people close to the investigation, the Wall Street Journal says that the plane’s flaps and other flight-control surfaces had been set up for takeoff based on the crash’s findings.
Investigators looking into the catastrophic airline crash are also examining the plane’s black boxes and determining whether it was overloaded.
With support from the US, UK, and Boeing officials, experts from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are looking into the disaster.
Recovering the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, sometimes known as “black boxes,” is essential to piecing together the events, according to aviation expert and former pilot Amit Singh.
Pilot conversations, emergency alerts, and any distress signals given prior to a collision are all captured on the cockpit voice recorder. Engine and control settings are recorded by the aircraft’s digital flight data recorder. Both gadgets are made to withstand collisions.
“The data will reveal everything,” Singh stated, adding that the cockpit voice recorder might confirm the technical facts and help investigators determine whether there was any communication between the pilots and air traffic control.
Pilots Sumeet Sabharwal and Clive Kunder reportedly made a mayday call prior to the disaster, according to India’s aviation regulatory agency.
Singh stated that in order to determine the crash’s primary cause, the investigating authorities will examine CCTV footage of the surrounding area and interview witnesses.
Singh added that the investigators will also look into the pilot’s training records, the aircraft’s overall load, engine thrust problems, and the plane’s reliability based on previous performance and any concerns that have been recorded in the past.
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