{"id":632409,"date":"2026-06-11T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632409\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:19:08","slug":"sole-survivor-of-air-india-crash-demands-honesty-and-answers-one-year-on-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632409\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole survivor of Air India crash demands \u2018honesty and answers\u2019 one year on | Air India Ahmedabad plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only survivor of the Air India<\/a> plane crash that killed 260 people in June 2025 has called for \u201chonesty, transparency and answers\u201d a year on from the disaster, and spoken about his \u201csignificant psychological scars\u201d and financial hardship.<\/p>\n

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, has previously described his fate as a \u201cmiracle\u201d after being the only person to survive the incident, in which a Boeing 787 Dreamliner struck a medical college shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport.<\/p>\n

The crash killed 241 people onboard the London-bound flight, including 169 Indian nationals and 52 Britons, as well as 19 people who were on or near the site of the incident. A further 67 were seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Ramesh, who lost his brother in the crash, demanded answers as investigators are yet to publish their findings. Last month, India\u2019s civil \u200baviation minister said the investigation was in the \u201clast stage\u201d and the report would \u201cmostly\u201d be finished by the anniversary of the crash, on 12 June.<\/p>\n

Exactly 30 days after the crash last year, the Indian authorities released a preliminary report, which was in line with standard procedure. It found both of the plane\u2019s fuel switches had moved to the \u201ccut-off\u201d position \u201cimmediately\u201d after take-off, stopping fuel supply to the engine.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Press Association, Ramesh said there were more \u201cunanswered questions\u201d he wanted addressed, and that his trauma had not ended on the day of the crash. \u201cI live with the significant psychological scars, the loss of my brother, and the constant unanswered questions around how and why this happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know those questions are not just on my mind; they are on the minds of every affected family. More than anything, people need honesty, transparency and answers. Nothing will ever change what happened, but families deserve clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramesh has received \u00a321,500 from Air India to support his wife and five-year-old son, according to his representative, Sanjiv Patel, but continues to face financial hardship as well as psychological and emotional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve repeatedly asked to meet the chief executive of Air India but that has not happened,\u201d Patel said. \u201cWe recently met with executives of Air India and representatives connected to the Tata<\/a> Group [which has a controlling stake in the business].<\/p>\n

\u201cThose discussions were constructive and have resulted in some positive progress, although a number of important issues remain under discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patel said that, due to the impact of the crash, Ramesh had not been able to return to work as normal and his family was living on less than \u00a31,000 a month.<\/p>\n

Ramesh is also taking civil action. Patel said: \u201cDespite one of the worst aviation disasters involving British citizens in recent years, neither Vishwash nor many of the affected families we have spoken to have received any direct contact or tailored support from the UK government.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Air India spokesperson confirmed that representatives from Air India and the Tata Group had met Ramesh, and remained in \u201cclose contact\u201d with him and his team. The company said they were \u201cactively working to ensure that appropriate support continues to be extended to him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paul McClorry at Hudgell Solicitors said civil claims were being considered against a number of potential defendants. \u201cWe are awaiting the findings of the investigations, and we should finally start to see some clarity as to how and why this awful disaster happened, and, crucially, how it could have been avoided,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The UK Foreign Office has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only survivor of the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people in June 2025 has called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-632409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}