How did he survive the plane crash??

My understanding is that he was thrown out the side escape hatch with his seat, just before the plane burst into flames.

Blind luck.

Although the Black boxes have not been looked at yet. I just saw a vid from an airline pilot who had a much clearer vid of the crash. He zoomed in to show a little wind turbine propellor device had deployed from the underside of the plane. You could actually hear it buzzing like a Cessna type propellor. In fact, that's about all you can hear.

These are deployed usually when a plane loses power or hydraulics or has engine failure at a much higher altitude. It provides enough electricity so that the crew can communicate with the ground and give you minimum hydraulics so the plane has a chance to land, but it is a last resort.

Couple that with the surviving passenger hearing a loud bang before the plane hit the ground (also the lights flickered possibly related to the prop deployment) and people nearby hearing this sound, the pilot concludes that both engines failed. A last message from the pilot to the tower said "No Power" This turbine/propeller deploying might have been more useful at several thousand feet but of no use at 100.

Crazy story. Could be a mix of seat location, staying calm, and pure luck.
Some people just end up in that one spot where everything aligns.

His story is interesting. I heard one interview where he said he closed his eyes and thought he was dead initially. Then he opened them up and saw people dying next to him.

Here is another interview; this guy's number was not up that day. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/w...ar-ramesh.html

"Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38.

In the hours after the crash, grainy footage of a man with wounds on his face and blood on his shirt went viral on social media. He walked himself to an ambulance with a slight limp, and told a crowd around him that he had come "from inside" the plane.

Mr. Ramesh's story initially appeared too good to be true; the crash was so severe that the bodies of most victims were charred beyond recognition, officials said. But by late evening, Air India confirmed that there had been one survivor, who was getting treatment at the hospital.

"I still can't believe how I got out alive," Mr. Ramesh said on Friday in an interview from his hospital bed with India's state broadcaster, Doordarshan. "I thought I was also about to die."

Mr. Ramesh, who was seated in an exit row, said the plane had felt "stuck five or 10 seconds after takeoff," and it seemed to be trying to accelerate when it crashed.

The front of the plane, after hitting buildings, crashed into an open area, he said, while the tail was stuck in a building, which was later identified as the dining facility of a medical college.

Mr. Ramesh said he unbuckled his seatbelt after the crash when he saw a chance for escape. He did not make clear whether he had to open the emergency exit he was sitting next to, or if the impact had caused it to open.

"When my door broke, I saw there was some space -- that I could try to get out," he said in the interview. "The other side, people couldn't get out, as it was crushed against a wall."

Shortly after the crash, Mr. Ramesh made a video call from near the wreckage to his family in Leicester to confirm he was safe, the younger brother said. There, the family home was a scene of both mourning for Ajay and stunned amazement that Viswash had somehow walked away. "

There is no logical explanation here. This is a clear example of luck. And the fact that he was sitting by the emergency exit is just a coincidence, since the plane has more than one such exit.

I'm more than sure that in a few years Netflix or Amazon will make a movie about this story. Kind of like they did with the Hudson River crash