Ahmedabad plane crash: Thai singer who survived 1998 plane crash shares chilling coincidence with Air India tragedy survivor
Thai pop singer Ruangsak James Loychusak, who survived a devastating plane crash in 1998, has grabbed the Internet's attention after he shared a chilling coincidence with the sole survivor of the Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad. Nearly three decades later, the very seat he occupied during that crash, 11A, resurfaces in another chilling, similar tragedy.
Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. 'The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,' he wrote.
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However, Thai Airways, on which Loychusak was boarded, operated an Airbus A310, and Air India used a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
On June 12, Air India flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed just 33 seconds after take-off. The aircraft crashed into a medical college hostel, killing 241 people on board. Miraculously, one passenger survived. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, a British Indian national, the sole survivor, had been seated in 11A.
He had recently travelled to Diu with his elder brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, 45, who was seated elsewhere on the aircraft. Vishwash, a longtime London resident, had been scheduled to return home to his wife and child.
Viswash, who is currently admitted to a local hospital, told DD News, 'The side of the plane I was on landed on the ground next to the hostel. When the door broke, I saw that there was space, and tried to get out. On the opposite side, there was the hostel, and I saw no one could leave from there. There was some space (to exit) only where I was (seated).'
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