New Delhi, June 17 -- On June 12, local residents became the first responders when an Air India flight came down crashing at a hostel for medical students in Ahmedabad and immediately blew up in flames, in one of the worst plane crashes of India.

The crumpled fuselage of the AI171 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft gave rise to flames that refused to go out, even with the piercing screams of passengers and residents of the BJ Medical College hostel.

But the flames were so intense that it prevented Raju Patel, a businessman in the construction field who ran to the scene without thinking, from entering the actual scene of the accident.

As per a report by The Times of India, Patel and his crew responded to the accident within five minutes of ...