Social media footage proven on Indian information channels confirmed a person in a bloodstained white t-shirt and darkish pants limping on a avenue and being helped by a medic. The person had bruises on his face and a goatee beard, resembling pictures of Viswashkumar in hospital after the crash that have been printed by native media.
Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the video, through which individuals gathered across the man and requested him the place have been the opposite passengers, to which he replied “they’re all inside”.
A photograph of Viswashkumar’s boarding move proven on-line by the Hindustan Occasions confirmed that he was seated in seat 11A of the airplane sure for Gatwick Airport.
He instructed the paper his brother Ajay had been seated in a special row on the airplane and requested for assist to seek out him.
“He was close to the emergency exit and managed to flee by leaping out the emergency door,” mentioned Vidhi Chaudhary, a senior police officer in Ahmedabad, talking about Viswashkumar.
A member of Viswashkumar’s household primarily based in Britain, who requested anonymity, instructed Reuters over the telephone that he had survived and that the household was in contact with him, however declined to share additional particulars.
Ajay Valgi, a cousin of Viswashkumar who lives in Leicester, central England, instructed the BBC that Viswashkumar spoke by telephone to verify he was all proper. “He solely mentioned that he was high quality, nothing else,” Valgi mentioned.
Valgi mentioned the household had not heard something about his brother. “We’re not doing nicely. We’re all upset,” he mentioned.
Viswashkumar is married with one baby, a boy, he added.
