São Paulo, SP (Folhapress)-The Briton of Indian origin Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, who killed, this Thursday (12), more than 240 people in India. The plane crashed into a residential area and exploded seconds after taking off in the city of Ahmedabad.
Police said Ramesh was sitting near an emergency exit and managed to jump out of the aircraft. However, details of how he survived the fall and also the huge fireball that succeeded it were disclosed.
“When I got up, there were bodies around me. I was afraid. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane around me. Someone grabbed me, put me in an ambulance and took me to the hospital,” he told the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times.
Remember below other air accidents in which only one person survived.
1971 – Juliane Koepcke, the only survivor of accident in Peru with 91 dead
Germano-Peruvian Juliane Koepcke was 17 when she boarded her mother on Peruvian airline Lansa’s flight 508 on December 24, 1971, in Peru. The plane, a Lockheed Electra, was hit by lightning during a storm over the Amazon rainforest and shattered in the air.
“It all happened a lot, very quickly. The plane jumped and it started to crash. And I still remember people screaming desperately. It was dark like pitch around us, and I listened to the roar of free -down plane engines,” she told Outlook BBC’s Outlook program in 2012. “It was a noise that filled my head completely.” plane.”
Koepcke, attached to the seat, plummeted about 3,000 meters. She suffered several injuries, including a broken clavicle, a ligament of the broken knee and deep cuts.
The survivor was still 11 days in the dense forest, most of them alone and without glasses, which she lost in the fall. Koepcke says he walked close to a stream, feeding only on the bullets and sweets he had found in a plastic bag near where he had fallen. The products lasted four days.
While in the jungle, he suffered insect bites and had to deal with his wounded arm infected with larvae. Weakened, it was found by lumberjacks who led her to a village, where she got help.
Koepcke was the only survivor of the flight with 92 people. She later became a biologist and in 2011 wrote a book about her experience called “When I Fell from the Sky”.
1973 – Ricardo Trajano, the only surviving passenger of accident in France with 123 dead
Brazilian Ricardo Trajano was the only passenger who survived the accident on the outskirts of Paris on July 11, 1973. Varig’s Boeing 707, which took off from Rio de Janeiro to London, had a fire, which began in one of the back bathrooms during the descent to Paris, where he would scale.
Toxic smoke spread rapidly through the cabin, and many passengers suffered carbon monoxide poisoning even before the emergency landing attempt.
The British BBC Trajan network states that it survived because it disobeyed the instructions given by the flight attendants. Realizing that there was fire and smoke, he defileted his belt and walked into an area in the front of the plane, farther from the fire.
“I could have returned [ao assento no fundo da aeronave]. And if I had not done this transgression, I would probably not be here today, ”he told the BBC network Witness in 2018. In addition to him, ten crew survived.
1987 – Cecelia Cichan, the only US accident survivor with 156 dead (including two on soil)
American Cecelia Cichan was only four years old when she survived the Northwest Airlines 255 flight disaster on August 16, 1987, in the United States. The plane, an McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed shortly after taking off from Detroit airport, killing 154 people on board and two on ground. Among the dead were the parents and a brother of Cecelia. She was the only survivor.
The girl underwent four skin graft surgeries to treat severe burns on her arms and legs. She also suffered a skull fracture and had collarbone and fractured leg in the accident.
Cichan was found under rubble, and many believe she was protected by her mother during the fall. The rescue caused a commotion around the world, but it maintained discretion throughout life and only spoke publicly about the accident, for the first time in 2012. “I think of the accident every day. It’s hard not to think when I look in the mirror. I have visible scars,” he said at the time.
2009 – Bahia Bakari, the only survivor of accident at Indian with 152 dead
Nicknamed “The Miraculous Girl,” the Frenchman Bahia Bakari was 12 when she became the only survivor of Flight Yemenia 626, which fell in the Indian Ocean on June 30, 2009, near the Lares islands. The Airbus A310 came from Sana, Yemen, heading for the Matonian capital, Moroni, when she suffered a failure while approaching the airport and fell into the sea with 153 people on board.
Bakari, who could not swim and was without life jacket, was thrown out of the aircraft and managed to cling to the wreckage of the plane. She was drifting for about 13 hours in the busy, wounded sea, until she was spotted by a rescue boat. He was taken to the hospital with multiple bruises, burns, fractures and face injuries. His mother died in the accident.
In 2010, Bahia released a book with memories called “Moi Bahia, La Miraculée” (“I’m Bahia, The Miracrosa”, in free translation) with the co -authorship of a journalist.
2011 – Alexandr Sizov, the only survivor of accident in Russia with 44 dead
Alexandr Sizov was the only survivor of the plane crash that killed almost the entire Russian Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team on 7 September 2011. The plane, a Yakovlev Yak-42, fell shortly after taking off from Yaroslavl airport, on his way to Belarus, where the team would play a hosting hockey league match. Of the 45 people on board, including players, technicians and crew, 44 died.
Sizov, then 52, was a flight engineer and was working at the aircraft -in the moment of the accident, was in the passenger cabin. He survived with various injuries, including multiple fractures and burns, and spent hospitalized weeks in serious condition.
