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Today, the Air India crash and the miracle of seat 11A.

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The plane had only just left the runway at Almedabad Airport, when the captain issued a Mayday call.

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. The plane was in mortal danger.

Seconds later, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed down into a busy residential area,

sending a massive fireball into the sky and destroying the residential quarters of a medical college.

Getting reports of a plane crash in India.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was headed to London when it went down in a residential area near

the airport in Amadabad.

Initially, all 242 people on board were presumed dead.

And then a video emerged from the wreckage, showing a man walking away from the crash site.

His face covered with cuts and bruises. It was 40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.

Unbelievably, he had survived.

But how?

And what else might have gone so horribly, horribly wrong?

From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pid.

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