At least one survivor of Ai171 Air India flight has been found alive and is receiving treatment in a hospital, as confirmed on Thursday a police source to the media.
Indian television channels have broadcast images in which a man is seen who, according to the media, is the survivor of the Ai171 Air India flight accident, which crashed Thursday in the Indian city of Ahmedabad with 242 people on board.
He Head of the Ahmedabad PoliceGS Malik, confirmed before the discovery of a person alive, located in the 11A seat of the Boeing 787, which he assured was being treated in a hospital without specifying his state of health.
In the images transmitted by the Indian chain NDTV Sand see a person walking after the incident, That occurred when the plane hit a student residence of the BJ Medical College, causing the death of at least five people on land.
Commissioner Malik has requested caution on the total number of victims of the plane. “We cannot say anything about the number of dead still,” he said.
Sources of rescue teams told Efe that the hopes of finding people alive is very low, while dozens of bodies have been transferred to hospitals, although searches between the remains of the calcined fuselage continue.
The accident became a major catastrophe when impacting the aircraft against a student residence of the BJ Medical College, in which at least five people died were injured.
At the moment, no authority has issued an official figure of victims of the plane.
At least 169 Indian citizens, 53 British, seven Portuguese and a Canadian were traveling on the flight, according to the airline.
