Amid the fiery wreckage of the Air India plane crash that devastated Ahmedabad on Thursday, one man emerged bruised, shaken and alive. Ramesh Vishwaskumar, a British citizen who was sitting in seat 11A, miraculously survived the tragedy that 241 others on board did not.

“Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud bang,” he told local reporters, who gathered around him in deep disbelief. “There were dead bodies all around me. I was scared. I got up and ran. There were pieces of the plane everywhere.”

His chest, eyes and feet bore “impact wounds,” but he lived to tell the tale. In the viral video now circulating on social media, Ramesh can be seen limping away from the wreckage, his clothes torn, blood streaming down his face—a raw image of trauma and survival.

Originally from India, Ramesh has lived in London for the past 20 years with his wife and children. His return was supposed to be a brief family reunion; instead, it turned into a brush with death.

But the trauma did not end with the survival. His brother, Ajay Vishwaskumar, who was also on the same flight, is now ‘missing’. Two of Ramesh’s friends rushed to Ahmedabad from Diu, hoping for another miracle and fearing the worst. “We don’t know anything yet,” a neighbour told reporters. “It’s chaos. They are just trying to find him.”