Vishwash Ramesh, Air India Crash Lone Survivor, Speaks Out

The lone survivor of the Air India plane crash has spoken out.

Hours after Vishwash Kumar Ramesh walked away from the London-bound flight AI171 that crashed down June 12 in the Indian city of Ahmedabad and killed all other members onboard, the British national shared his experience of the moments before the tragedy, when the plane had just departed the airport.

“Within 30 seconds, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed,” Vishwash told The Hindustan Times. “It all happened so quickly.”

The U.K. native, whose brother was also on board the Boeing 787-8 aircraft, detailed his initial observations in the aftermath of the crash as well.

“There were bodies all around me, there were pieces of the plane all around me,” Vishwash told local Indian news outlet News18. “Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance.”

According to his surviving brother Nayan Kumar Ramesh, per Sky News, Vishwash also said immediately after the crash, “I don’t know where my brother is. I don’t see any other passengers. I don’t know how I’m alive, how I exited the plane.”