Air India Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Thailand
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Vishwash Kumar Ramesh survived the 2025 Air India crash from seat 11A — the same seat Thai actor James Loychusak survived in during a 1998 crash.
The recent crash of Air India Flight 171 is being called one of India’s worst aviation disasters in recent memory. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff on June 6,
Thai actor-singer Ruangsak Loychusak, a survivor of a 1998 plane crash, shared a chilling coincidence: the lone survivor of the recent Air India crash, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, was seated in the same seat 11A as Ruangsak during his own near-death experience 27 years ago.
AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Indian investigators on Friday recovered the digital flight data recorder, or the black box, of the Air India flight that fell from the sky and killed 241 people on board and several people on the ground, authorities said.
A singer from Thailand has shared he was he was occupying the same seat number as the Air India tragedy's sole survivor during a plane crash in 1998: Seat 11A. Ramesh Viswashkumar is the lone survivor of the Air India crash which killed 241 on board and many more on the ground.
All but one of the 242 people on board the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off.
Follow NBC News live updates for the latest coverage of of the Air India plane crash in the city of Ahmedabad. Only nne man, a U.K. national survived.