Air India miracle passenger's tale sparks interest in other sole survivors of plane crashes
The notion that only
one person survived the Air India plane crash that killed 241 people on board on Thursday is sparking interest on social media about how that could happen and if such a thing has happened before.
A doctor has said Ramesh Vishwaskumar was thrown out of the plane and walked to a nearby ambulance for aid. Dr Dhaval Gameti, who treated Vishwaskumar, said that the passenger was disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body, but that he seemed to be out of danger.
People on social media have been commenting about the idea of only one person surviving the crash, calling it unreal, remarkable, a work of divine intervention, and a miracle.
In recent decades, several other people have been the lone survivors of plane crashes.
Cecelia Crocker – known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash – was aboard Northwest Airlines flight 255 when it crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus in the United States, killing 154 people on board, including her parents and brother. Two people also died on the ground.
The Phoenix-bound plane was clearing the runway when it tilted and the left wing clipped a light pole before shearing the top off a rental car building. The McDonnell Douglas MD80 left a 0.8km (1/2 mile) trail of bodies and wreckage along Middle Belt Road.
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