Overview
- Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 39, the only survivor of June’s Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, says he suffers constant flashbacks and lingering injuries and cannot work.
- Ramesh says the death of his younger brother Ajay in the crash has devastated his family and left him largely isolated at home in Leicester.
- Family advisers Sanjiv Patel and Radd Seiger accuse Air India of impersonal handling and publicly urge CEO Campbell Wilson to meet Ramesh directly.
- Air India says it has paid an interim £21,500 to Ramesh and offered a meeting with senior Tata Group leaders, maintaining that care for families remains a priority.
- The AAIB’s preliminary report found both fuel-supply switches moved to the cut-off position immediately after takeoff, with the final cause still undetermined; 241 on board died, plus 19 on the ground, and 67 were seriously injured.