Watch: Air India survivor claims he walked away from plane crash

A video has emerged of an injured man walking to an ambulance having survived, he claims, the Air India plane crash.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, said he still had his boarding pass for Flight AI 171 and his seat, 11A.

“Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,” Ramesh told the Hindustan Times from his hospital bed.

Newsweek could not immediately verify the claim.

Footage of the crash showed a huge explosion and local officials had initially said there were no survivors of the 242 people on board.

Ramesh said he was in India to visit family and returning to London on the flight with his brother, Ajay Kumar Ramesh, who is still missing.

“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran,” Ramesh said.

“There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital.”

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