THIS is the astonishing moment miracle Brit Vishwash Ramesh rushes back to the burning Air India plane to save his brother.
The 40-year-old sole survivor was captured staggering towards the blazing students’ hostel as black smoke billowed in the sky.
A video surfaced today showing rescue worker Satinder Singh Sandhu waving his arms frantically to prevent the British individual from returning to the scene of the accident.
Dressed in a white t-shirt and trousers, Vishwash is seen eventually wandering over to the emergency worker as flames leapt behind him.
Satinder revealed how he pleaded with the dad not to return to the inferno, warning he would died if he did.
He recalled shouting as loud as he could to grab the dazed man’s attention, then “begging him not to go back in there.”
In the midst of the chaos, the British survivor turned to Satinder, expressing, “My relative is inside, my brother, and he’s in flames. I need to rescue him.”
According to the emergency worker, Vishwas was very disoriented, and limping but was still able to speak coherently.
According to a report by the Mail Online, Satinder recalled, “There was blood on his face, but he was coherent. He informed the paramedics that he was en route to London when the plane crashed and he wanted to return to save his family.”
Locals appear rushing around in panic and calling the emergency services when they spotted him.
The businessman was taken to the 1,200-bed Civil Hospital less than a mile from Ahmedabad airport where the doomed Air India flight had taken off from before crashing just 33 seconds later.
His dad Ramesh has been at his bedside but has been too upset to talk since the tragedy in which he lost his youngest son Ajay.
Family friend Deepak Devjil said: “He is still grappling with the tragedy.”
The dad received a special Father’s Day gift yesterday when his four-year-old son sent his best wishes.
His youngster and wife have travelled to India following the crash and the family will soon be reunited, but Vishwash spoke to his son on the phone yesterday.
The story of Vishwash’s escape has astounded the world – and left experts speculating over how he cheated death.
His brother, Ajaykumar Ramesh, 35, was sitting five seats away and tragically lost his life in the crash.
Vishwash was sitting in seat 11A when the plane came down, which is right by the emergency exit.
The Brit, whose family is from Leicester, told local media he was able to push open the plane’s fuselage and get out before the plane blew up.
But it is currently unclear whether the opening Vishwash “slipped out” of was the emergency door or a rupture in the aircraft’s fuselage.
Aerospace and aviation professor Graham Braithwaite speculated the lucky Brit may have actually been flung out of the wreckage.
He said: “The aircraft was loaded with fuel and it crashed into a heavily populated area.
“I can only imagine that he was thrown from the wreckage, and that somehow as it crashed, what it hit managed to absorb some of the impact.”
He added: “Looking at the scene, I would imagine that the disruption to the aircraft would have been huge.
“If anybody could have got out, then they probably could have just gone out in a gap in the fuselage – you’d struggle to infer from this, therefore, that is the seat you must always sit in.”
Vishwash has relayed his memory of the moment the plane went down, and his account could hold the key to figuring out what went wrong.
One detail in particular has peaked the interest of crash investigators.
The Brit revealed that the cabin lights began flickering just before the jet sank through the air.
He said: “When the flight took off, within five to 10 seconds it felt like it was stuck in the air.
“Suddenly, the lights started flickering – green and white.
“The aircraft wasn’t gaining altitude and was just gliding before it suddenly slammed into a building and exploded.”
Vishwash’s flickering lights revelation came after a passenger who travelled on the plane the day before the crash claimed electrical parts such as the back-of-seat screens weren’t working.
Aviation experts have speculated that the reports of dodgy electrics could be a sign of a power failure, possibly explaining the crash.
