Police: Air India survivor leapt from crashing plane
NewsFeed Police: Air India survivor leapt from crashing plane
Footage shows the only known survivor of the Air India Flight AI171 crash, 40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, limping along a road near the wreckage as a medic helps him. Police say he leapt from emergency exit row 11A moments before the plane with 242 people on board crashed.
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