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 reason why the solo Air India survivor walked away from the tragic crash website the place tons of died … and he says it could have every part to do with the place the person was sitting.
As you already know, final week, an Air India flight tragically crashed moments after taking off, killing greater than 200 passengers on board — however, one flier was seen strolling away from the explosion, virtually untouched.
Capt. Rusty tells us there’s not essentially a “safest” seat an individual can sit in on a aircraft, but when you will get as shut as doable to any emergency exit door, your probabilities of strolling off a aircraft if it goes down undoubtedly improve.
The skilled provides that being near an emergency exit — like Viswash Kumar Ramesh‘s seat 11A was on this aircraft — permits the passenger to be the primary off the aircraft within the worst situations, which might imply life or dying inside a matter of seconds.
He factors out in Ramesh‘s case, you’ll be able to see in movies of the explosion there was a ton of gas, however Ramesh was apparently saved from the inferno by sitting ahead of gas tanks situated by the wings.
Nonetheless, the retired pilot desires to emphasise there’s no such factor as a assured secure seat on any sort of plane. He jokes pilots are normally the primary to reach at a crash website … however in each aircraft crash occasion, every seat’s stage 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 isn’t essentially unparalleled — however, he reveals that though he doesn’t usually consider in miracles, this survivor story could immediate him to begin believing.
