One survivor found in seat 11A: police

Police found one survivor on flight who is now at a hospital under treatment following the Air India crash in Ahmedabad which was bound for London with 242 people on board.

City police chief GS Malik told Reuters that 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site. Vidhi Chaudhary, another senior police officer, said police found one survivor who was in seat 11A, adding that there could be more survivors in hospital.

BREAKING: This man walking is Ramesh Viswashkumar, who was seated in 11A and survived the Air India plane crash pic.twitter.com/LsfbKVq1Jl

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"Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed," 40-year-old Ramesh Viswashkumar told the Hindustan Times, which showed a boarding pass for seat 11A in that name online.

"It all happened so quickly," he told the paper from his hospital bed.

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"When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me," he said. "Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital."

He said that his brother Ajay was seated in a different row on the plane. "He was travelling with me and I can't find him anymore. Please help me find him," he said.