Video shows Air India sole survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh moments after plane crashed
Chilling new video has emerged of the sole survivor of the devastating Air India crash moments after it crashed into a building.
The video shows British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh walking away from the burning wreckage, with bystanders leading him to safety.
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He appeared dazed and looked back behind him at the crash site as he walked away.
Video previously released showed Ramesh walking away from another angle, appearing to limp with only a few cuts and scratches and a bloodied shirt.
Ramesh was sitting in seat 11A on the doomed Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
It took off from the city of Ahmedabad, in western India, and was en route to London's Gatwick when it struck a medical college hostel minutes after takeoff on Thursday.
A total of 241 people on board were killed as well as at least 29 people on the ground.
Ramesh, from London, had been visiting family in India and was on the plane with his brother.
Speaking to reporters from his hospital bed, he said there was a 'loud noise' 30 seconds after take-off.
'When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me,' he said.
On the weekend, the medical director of the Civil Hospital where Ramesh is being treated said he was 'doing well' but was 'psychologically disturbed' by the event.
It was reported Ramesh would be discharged from hospital within days.
In addition to the formal investigation, the Indian government says it has formed a high-level, multi-disciplinary committee to examine the causes leading to the crash.
The committee will focus on formulating procedures to prevent and handle aircraft emergencies in the future and 'will not be a substitute to other inquiries being conducted by relevant organisations,' the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
Authorities have begun inspecting Air India's entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, Indian Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said on Saturday in New Delhi at his first news briefing since last Thursday's crash.
Eight of the 34 Dreamliner aircraft in India have already undergone inspection, Kinjarapu said, adding that the remaining aircraft will be examined with 'immediate urgency.'
The government is eagerly awaiting results of the crash investigation by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau and all necessary steps will be taken without hesitation, Kinjarapu said.
Investigators on Friday recovered the plane's digital flight data recorder, or the black box, which was recovered from a rooftop near the crash site and likely will lead to clues about the cause of the accident.
India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said it had started working with 'full force' to extract the data.
The device is expected to reveal information about the engine and control settings, while the voice recorder will provide cockpit conversations, said Paul Fromme, a mechanical engineer with the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Aviation safety consultant Jeff Guzzetti, a former crash investigator for both the US National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration, said investigators should be able to answer some important questions about what caused the crash as soon as next week as long as the flight data recorder is in good shape.
Investigators likely are looking at whether wing flaps were set correctly, the engine lost power, alarms were going off inside the cockpit and if the plane's crew correctly logged information about the hot temperature outside and the weight of the fuel and passengers, Guzzetti said.
Mistakes in the data could result in the wing flaps being set incorrectly, he said.
The crash involved a 12-year-old Boeing 787.
Boeing planes have been plagued by safety issues on other types of aircraft.
There are currently around 1200 of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft worldwide and this was the first deadly crash in 16 years of operation, according to experts.
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