Sole survivor of Air India crash ‘still dreams he is on the plane’

The only person to walk away from the deadly Air India flight last month is suffering from nightmares after his ordeal.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was the lone survivor from the plane, which crashed on June 12 in Ahmedabad, India.

The father-of-one, who had been in window seat 11A, stumbled out of the burning jet moments before it exploded, while all other 241 onboard – including his brother Ajay – were killed.

Family member Krunal Keshave, from Leicester, has now revealed the impact the tragedy has had on him: ‘He can’t sleep at night. He sleeps but doesn’t sleep properly.

‘When he sleeps, he dreams he is on the flight. He remembers seeing everyone die in front of his eyes.’

Ramesh had been travelling back to the UK, but has since remained in India with his wife and son, who are supporting him as he tries to live a normal life.

Keshave added: ‘He speaks, but he doesn’t speak about the crash. He is currently trying to have a normal life, but he is not going out too much.

‘He is spending time at home with the family.’

Footage last month showed the British national balancing his brother Ajay’s coffin on his shoulder, despite walking with a visible limp after the crash.

His face was covered in plasters – injuries suffered during the collision after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner reported a loss of engine thrust after take-off.

Vishwash told DD News: ‘I saw people dying in front of my eyes – the air hostesses, and two people I saw near me … I walked out of the rubble.’

Earlier this month, investigators looking into the Air India crash were trying to unravel a ‘mistake’ made by the pilots.

Assessments by US officials suggest the crash was not caused by problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The findings suggest that switches controlling fuel flow to the jet’s two engines were turned off.

This then led to an apparent loss of thrust shortly after takeoff.

Pilots on aircraft use the switches to start the jet’s engines, shut them down, or reset them in certain emergencies.

These switches would normally be on during flight, and it is unclear how or why they were turned off.

The US investigators have said that it is unclear whether the move was accidental or intentional, or whether there was an attempt to turn them back on, according to the Wall Street Journal.

If the switches were off this could explain why the jet’s emergency-power generator—known as a ram air turbine, or RAT was activated before the aircraft crashed.

It’s also been revealed that the captain of the Air India plane vowed to return home soon to look after his elderly dad.

Just hours before one of India’s worst aviation disasters that killed 260 people, the captain, Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, had reportedly told the security guard in his apartment complex to look after his elderly father, who lived with him.

The captain, who had over 15,600 hours of experience in the cockpit, said: ‘Please, take care of papa. I will be back soon.’

His colleagues have rallied around him after the preliminary crash report appeared to shift the blame over the crash onto the pilots.

Other Air India pilots have claimed that Sabharwal struggled with mental health issues.

The doomed plane was carrying 169 Indian nationals, 53 British, one Canadian and seven Portuguese people.