"There was nothing unusual about the first moments after takeoff. Then, Viswashku" – The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2025

There was nothing unusual about the first moments after takeoff. Then, Viswashkumar Ramesh said, it felt like the plane got stuck in midair. It wasn’t clear yet, but Air India Flight 171 was going down. Green and white lights suddenly illuminated the cabin. The next thing Ramesh knew, he was on the ground. Seated next to an emergency exit on the plane’s left side, he made his way outside. He saw that the right side of the plane had crashed into a building, blocking exits there. Then a massive fireball sent flames and black smoke billowing into the sky. “I don’t know how I survived,” said Ramesh, the crash’s lone survivor. The British national in his late 30s has become known as the miracle of window seat 11A. Read more: https://on.wsj.com/44cJ3JY

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