Air India Sole Survivor
Aviation Knowledgeable Says Seat 11A Could Have Saved Him …
‘It Was a Miracle!!!’
Revealed
TMZ.com
Captain Ross “Rusty” Aimer — a retired United Airways pilot and the CEO of Aero Consulting Consultants — dissects potential the explanation why the solo Air India survivor walked away from the tragic crash web site the place a whole bunch died … and he says it could have all the pieces to do with the place the person was sitting.
As you recognize, final week, an Air India flight tragically crashed moments after taking off, killing greater than 200 passengers on board — however, one flier was seen strolling away from the explosion, virtually untouched.
Capt. Rusty tells us there’s not essentially a “most secure” seat an individual can sit in on a airplane, but when you will get as shut as doable to any emergency exit door, your possibilities of strolling off a airplane if it goes down positively enhance.
The professional provides that being near an emergency exit — like Viswash Kumar Ramesh‘s seat 11A was on this airplane — permits the passenger to be the primary off the airplane within the worst situations, which may imply life or loss of life inside a matter of seconds.
He factors out in Ramesh‘s case, you possibly can see in movies of the explosion there was a ton of gas, however Ramesh was apparently saved from the inferno by sitting ahead of gas tanks situated by the wings.
Nonetheless, the retired pilot needs to emphasise there’s no such factor as a assured protected seat on any sort of plane. He jokes pilots are often the primary to reach at a crash web site … however in each airplane crash occasion, every seat’s degree of security varies relying on the character of the incident.
Captain Rusty additionally says there have been a number of sole-survivor plane-crash instances, so it is not essentially extraordinary — however, he reveals that although he doesn’t usually imagine in miracles, this survivor story might immediate him to begin believing.