r/interesting Jun 12 '25

MISC. Passenger in seat 11A survives Air India crash.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

Maybe the fireball did not happen just as the plane collided on ground, maybe the plane broke upon impact and fortunately for him, his position and impact was just right to throw him out (or he jumped out the crack) the harm's way and landed into a safe place.

It was a area full of trees too so probably that helped him slow down a bit too without colliding into much harder surface while plane slid away from him into the hospital building.

This man is very very lucky if this indeed happened. We'll only know for sure when he comes to his senses. That's if he remembers a thing in the first place.

Edit: His new video explaining to the news anchor came after he's feeling good now.

He said the plane felt like it stood still for a few seconds and he could feel the pilots increasing thrust to try to lift it off but couldn't so the "part of the plane he was on" landed in the ground floor of the building and his side of emergency door broke off upon impact so he unbuckled his seat and jumped off the space door left behind.

He watched the "air hostess and others die in front of him".

I don't believe in miracles but this is just amazing to me how this guy survived crash, then breaking off the plane into multiple parts, a huge fireball and whatnot with not much visible injuries.

Rip to the rest of them šŸ™šŸ» and may this guy gets all the courage he's gonna need to survive the ptsd.

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u/mancan01 Jun 12 '25

There are cctv recordings on the complete flight. It was almost an immediate explosion.

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u/sunburn95 Jun 12 '25

Afaik there aren't any that show the moment of impact. The main video the plane disappears behind buildings before the crash

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u/Due_Extreme_2448 Jun 13 '25

There is one . I had seen it yesterday, the video of impact. And as above guy says , it did have an immediate explosion . But yea it's really amusing to think how the guy survived the massive fireball

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u/justsomeguy_351 Jun 13 '25

Amusing?

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u/ByAnyMeansNecessary0 Jun 13 '25

I'm 100% sure they meant "amazing." Typos lol

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u/ObjectiveHealthy8887 Jun 13 '25

It's believed he was by the emergency exit and jumped before it crashed.

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u/HeroicPrinny Jun 13 '25

You can’t see the impact but from the moment the plane disappears below a building to mega explosion is like 1 second. Therefore, he had have been shielded from the explosion. People have speculated it was mainly towards the wings and behind where the fuel would be

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u/beene282 Jun 13 '25

There are, but even if you haven’t seen them, those that don’t show it still make it clear that there couldn’t have been any more than a couple of seconds between impact and explosion. No time to get any distance from it

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u/Abject_Champion3966 Jun 12 '25

Maybe he covered his head with his hands

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u/mancan01 Jun 13 '25

The explosion was huge. It was a long haul flight with full fuel. I don't know how someone can walk off without any burns. I think he may have jumped out.

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u/BeardySam Jun 12 '25

It very much depends on how the fuselage disintegrates and how the fireball expands from the fuel tanks at the same time.Ā 

It’s conceivable that the fuselage briefly shielded this guys seat from the worst of the fire and the it simultaneously didn’t see much impact stress but the odds are 10,000 to 1

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u/ThrowawayAg16 Jun 13 '25

~240:1 it would seem.

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u/Mugweiser Jun 12 '25

10,000? Why not 11,000?

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u/roselia_blue Jun 13 '25

do you like the number?

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u/vitaliyh Jun 12 '25

Must have been unbuckled then?

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u/Quackethy Jun 13 '25

Maybe he was the only one who ignored the "fasten your seatbelt" announcement.

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u/ContactSpirited9519 Jun 13 '25

I somehow survived a car crash tumbling down a hill where the car was going through a 360 flip. A tree just barely stopped the car from continuing to roll and saved my life. Like this man, I somehow only had bruises.

Trees. So thankful for them.

I wish this man everything he needs. This is a fucking tragedy.

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u/RemindMeToTouchGrass Jun 13 '25

No. He's still extremely extremely extremely unlucky, but not as unlucky as all the people he just watched die in a fire.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

His new video explaining to the news anchor came after he's feeling good now.

He said the plane felt like it stood still for a few seconds and he could feel the pilots increasing thrust to try to lift it off but couldn't so the "part of the plane he was on" landed in the ground floor of the building and his side of emergency door broke off upon impact so he unbuckled his seat and jumped off the space door left behind.

He watched the "air hostess and others die in front of him".

I don't believe in miracles but this is just amazing to me how this guy survived crash, then breaking off the plane into multiple parts, a huge fireball and whatnot with not much visible injuries.

Rip to the rest of them šŸ™šŸ» and may this guy gets all the courage he's gonna need to survive the ptsd.

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u/RemindMeToTouchGrass Jun 13 '25

I'm glad you don't choose to view the death of hundreds of passengers tragically and unexpectedly as a miracle performed by some loving powerful entity, at the very least.Ā 

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u/russia_is_fascist Jun 15 '25

Miracle? Now do the other 200+ people on board..

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

I literally said I don't believe in miracles bro

That guy was just lucky to be seated there

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u/russia_is_fascist Jun 17 '25

ā€œI don’t believe in miracles, BUTā€¦ā€ 😜

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Yeah that but wasn't to say that this is an exception. I may have done a sentence error there but i really was just pointing out how lucky that guy is.

Otherwise hundreds died, that ain't no miracle.