Overview
- Vishwashkumar Ramesh described persistent pain and severe psychological distress in a BBC interview, calling his escape a miracle but saying daily life now feels like suffering.
- Advisers say he was diagnosed with PTSD in India and has received no ongoing treatment since returning to Leicester, and he reports being unable to work or drive.
- Ramesh accepted a provisional £21,500 payment from Air India that his team calls inadequate, and they say repeated requests for a meeting with senior executives were ignored or declined.
- Air India, owned by Tata Group, says senior leaders continue to visit bereaved families, that care for Ramesh remains a priority, and that it offered to arrange a meeting before the media interviews.
- India’s AAIB preliminary report found a fuel-supply interruption to both engines seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, with 241 people on board killed and 19 fatalities on the ground.