Air India Sole Survivor
Aviation Professional Says Seat 11A Could Have Saved Him …
‘It Was a Miracle!!!’
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Captain Ross “Rusty” Aimer — a retired United Airways pilot and the CEO of Aero Consulting Consultants — dissects potential the explanation why the solo Air India survivor walked away from the tragic crash web site the place a whole lot died … and he says it could have every thing to do with the place the person was sitting.
As you understand, final week, an Air India flight tragically crashed moments after taking off, killing greater than 200 passengers on board — however, one flier was seen walking away from the explosion, virtually untouched.
Capt. Rusty tells us there’s not essentially a “most secure” seat an individual can sit in on a airplane, but when you will get as shut as potential to any emergency exit door, your probabilities of walking off a plane if it goes down positively enhance.
The knowledgeable provides that being near an emergency exit — like Viswash Kumar Ramesh‘s seat 11A was on this airplane — permits the passenger to be the primary off the airplane within the worst situations, which may imply life or demise inside a matter of seconds.
He factors out in Ramesh‘s case, you possibly can see in movies of the explosion there was a ton of gasoline, however Ramesh was apparently saved from the inferno by sitting ahead of gasoline tanks positioned by the wings.
Nevertheless, the retired pilot desires to emphasise there’s no such factor as a assured protected seat on any sort of plane. He jokes pilots are normally the primary to reach at a crash web site … however in each airplane crash occasion, every seat’s degree of security varies relying on the character of the incident.
Captain Rusty additionally says there have been a number of sole-survivor plane-crash circumstances, so it is not essentially unparalleled — however, he reveals that though he doesn’t sometimes imagine in miracles, this survivor story could immediate him to begin believing.
