Ahmedabad/New Delhi, June 13 -- In a tragic plane crash accident where no one was expected to survive, one man did. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, emerged as the sole known survivor of the Air India flight AI-171 that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon, minutes after take-off.

Currently admitted at the Civil Hospital in Asarwa, Vishwash is being treated for multiple injuries to his chest, eyes and feet. Lying on a hospital bed, he recounted the terrifying moment the Boeing 787 Dreamliner went down. "Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly," he said, still clutching hisboarding pass.

Vishwash, who has been living in London for the last 20 y...