India, June 14 -- The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash said his escape was a combination of fortune and quick decision in identifying a crucial space amid the wreckage and acting on his reflexes.

Speaking to HT a day after the aviation disaster, 38-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh, an Indian-origin British national said his seat, 11A, was close to an emergency door on the left side of the ill-fated plane, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

"Everything was over in 30 seconds after the flight took off. I don't know how I survived. There were bodies and pieces of plane scattered everywhere. For a moment, I thought I was going to die. But I decided not to look back and keep going," Ramesh, who is undergoing treatment in the trauma centre of Ah...