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Details continue to emerge about the accident of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of the company Air India. After learning that there was only one enger able to survive the accident, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, now it could have been discovered what is the key to this unusual event. The number of his seat has turned out to be the detail that saved his life.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was in seat 11A, or in other words, one of the seats located next to one of the emergency exits of the Boeing 787. A miracle in which logistics and the enger's daring played a key role. As he himself said after the accident, when he heard a loud noise shortly after takeoff, he opened the door and jumped out of the plane.
Why was it key to sit in seat 11A to survive the Air India crash?
"30 seconds after takeoff there was a loud noise and the plane crashed. When I got up, there were bodies around me. I was scared. I got up and ran," he said in his later testimony. That bit of courage and luck proved to be decisive for Vishwash Kiumar to be the sole survivor.
Experts are still incredulous that there was a enger who was simply injured. The odds of this happening are minimal, as Professor Edwin Galea, director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) at the University of Greenwich, points out that it should be noted that the accident occurred "in an urban area and with very serious damage to the fuselage"
On the other hand, experts point out that being right next to an emergency exit puts you among the first engers who could evacuate in the event of an accident. There are studies that detail that sitting in the five rows closest to an emergency exit has a higher survival rate in serious accidents.