London: For many, 40-year-old Vishwas Kumar Ramesh is the ‘luckiest man alive.’ But for him, survival feels like a punishment he never asked for.

Ramesh was the only one to walk away alive from Air India flight AI-171, which crashed moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad ’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12, killing 241 people on board.

The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off and, within seconds, slammed into the hostel building of BJ Medical College, killing 19 students on the ground.

Ramesh, seated in 11A, close to the emergency exit, was the sole survivor. Visuals of him walking, face blackened with soot, eyes glassy with disbelief, with no major injuries, stunned the country. His younger brother, Ajay, seated a few rows away, died.

“I am the only su

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