Emergency worker describes scary moment he saw Air India survivor ‘walk back towards fire’

An emergency worker who was one of the first responders at the Air India plane crash site has described the agonizing moment he saw survivor Vishwashkumar Ramesh try and walk back towards the fire.

The  40-year-old British national managed to escape the crash before it blew up in flames as he was seated in seat 11A, which was right next to the emergency exit on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Ahmedabad to London.

Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu then spotted Ramesh attempt to walk back towards the plane to save his older brother Ajay who was also on the flight, but he managed to convince him not to.

He told the MailOnline: “I saw a man in a white t-shirt walking back towards the fire. He appeared quite dazed and confused and I shouted ‘Stop. What are you doing? Don’t go back in there. You’ll die’.”

“I was shouting as loud as I could and waving my arms pointing to the flames. There was a lot of panic and confusion but luckily for him, he heard me.”

He said he had no idea how the survivor walked away from the crash almost unharmed and added: “I was screaming at the top of my voice and begging him not to go back in there, telling him to get away and walk to me.”

VIDEO | Ahmedabad plane crash: Satinder Singh Sandhu, an ambulance driver who was one of the first responders of the Ahmedabad plane crash, says "Our team noticed a massive fire with thick smoke rising into the sky. At first, we thought it might be a car accident or a gas… pic.twitter.com/nxAQ9jaznc

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After hearing him shouting, Ramesh turned around, walked towards him and said: “My family member is in there, my brother and he’s burning to death. I have to save him.”

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“I walked nearer to Mr Ramesh, grabbed him by the arm and led him away to a waiting ambulance. I had no idea that he was a passenger on the plane and thought he was a resident of the hostel or a passerby,” the emergency worker said.

“He was very disoriented and shocked and was limping. There was also blood on his face, but he was able to speak. He told the paramedics that he was flying to London when the plane fell and that he wanted to go back to save his family.”

Sandhu was working at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital close to where the crash happened, having lunch, when he heard a loud explosion and ran to find out what had happened.

He isn’t a paramedic, but is responsible for a fleet of ambulances at the hospital. Sandhu called his boss Jeetendra Shahi immediately and asked them send as many ambulances as they possibly could.

“There is a fire near Civil (hospital). It is a plane crash or something, I don’t know. Please ask the team leader to send ambulances and fire brigade at the earliest,” he said in the phone call.

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