London, June 14 -- The photo of Viswash Kumar Ramesh, bruised and battered, limping away from the debris of the Air India flight that crashed seconds after take-off in Ahmedabad on Thursday has become one of the defining images of the first aviation disaster in decades.

Ramesh's photo and the story of his miraculous escape, along with those of the mangled Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, the charred bodies and the crumbling hostel building that the jet crashed into were splashed on the front pages of newspapers in the UK.

Ramesh, a British national of Indian-origin, who is the lone survivor of the crash in which all other passengers - 241 including 12 crew members - perished.

"I don't believe how I survived. For some time, I thought I was also...