5 months after Air India disaster, sole survivor struggling with PTSD
Visvash Kumar Ramesh was the only survivor of the fiery crash of Air India Flight 171. He calls it a miracle, but says he "lost everything" that day.
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Visvash Kumar Ramesh was the only survivor of the fiery crash of Air India Flight 171. He calls it a miracle, but says he "lost everything" that day.
Some of the British families who lost loved ones in the Air India crash in Ahmedabad have been sent the wrong remains, a lawyer says.
The 15-page report released Friday by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau found that the cutoff switches for both engines were switched within one second.
A preliminary report on last month's deadly Air India plane crash found that an unexpected fuel cutoff occurred after liftoff. The plane was bound for London when it crashed moments after takeoff, killing at least 270 people. CBS News transportation safety expert and analyst Robert Sumwalt has more.
A preliminary report released on the Air India jet, which crashed last month in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, has found that the fuel control switches to the engine had been shut off just moments before the crash. All but one of the 242 people aboard the plane died in the wreck. CBS News aviation safety analyst Robert Sumwalt, former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, joins for analysis.
Air India plane crash investigators have found both of the Boeing 787's "black boxes," hopefully brining an understanding of the cause of the disaster a step closer.
An Air India Boeing 787, the same kind of plane that crashed 4 days earlier, was forced to turn around after a midair "technical issue," the airline says.
The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.
The man who walked away from the Air India plane crash as the disaster's only survivor was sitting near an emergency exit on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
Out of the 242 people who were on board Air India flight AI171 when the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, moments after takeoff, just one is believed to have survived. Anna Coren reports.
Efforts to understand what caused the Air India plane continue as reports emerge about one of the black boxes being recovered. CBS News' Ana Coren reports.
"It felt like the plane came to a standstill (in the air) for 5 to 10 seconds," 40-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh said. He was in seat 11A when the Air India flight crashed.
A passenger survived after an Air India plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad shortly after departing for London.
The sole survivor of the London-bound Air India plane that crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is recalling the moment the plane felt like it was at "a standstill" in the air before it came down. Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 40, spoke from his hospital bed, saying he opened his eyes after the plane crashed to find those around him had died: "Everything happened in front of my eyes."
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British National, has been identified as the lone survivor in the Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people in Ahmedabad on Thursday. CBS News foreign correspondent Anna Coren has more details.
Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.
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