At UK home of survivor, a cocktail of joy and grief
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.
At his home in Leicester, central England, however, Ramesh's family oscillated between joy at his escape and grief at the loss of his brother. "We are happy Viswash has been saved, but on the other hand we are just heartbroken about Ajay," Hiren Kantilal, Ramesh's cousin, said.
Ajay was also on the same flight seated on 11J while Ramesh was on 11A. Their younger brother, Nayan, said the two were on the return journey home after a vacation in India. P11...
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