00:00He was the only one who made it out alive from a crash that took 241 lives.
00:09The luckiest man alive? Maybe.
00:11But in his eyes, there's only pain and the unbearable weight of surviving.
00:15Vishwakumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad.
00:21On June 12, 241 lives were lost, including his younger brother who was just a few seats away.
00:30He escaped through a hole in the fuselage and walked away from the wreckage.
00:34But the scars never left him.
00:36I lost my brother, my backbone, he said in an interview.
00:40Since that day, Ramesh barely spoke to his wife or son.
00:43He prefers to be alone, trapped between grief and guilt.
00:47Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, that is PTSD,
00:50he hasn't received any formal treatment since returning home to Leicester.
00:54His physical injuries linger, pain in his leg, shoulder, knee and back,
00:59making it hard for him to work or even drive.
01:02His wife has to help him shower, he said in an interview.
01:05The family's fishing business in the U, once run by Ramesh and his brother, has collapsed.
01:09His mother too has withdrawn, sitting by the door every day in quiet mourning.
01:14Community leaders and his advisors say the family is in crisis,
01:18mentally, physically and financially.
01:20They've criticised Air India for not doing enough.
01:23His lawyer Rath Saiger says, requests for meetings have been ignored or turned down.
01:27Air India, owned by the Tata Group, says, senior leaders have reached out to victims' families.
01:32The airline claims it offered to meet Ramesh's representatives
01:35and has provided interim compensation of 21,500 pounds, that is around 25 lakh rupees.
01:41His advisors say, it's far from enough to meet his immediate needs.
01:44Vishwakumar Ramesh may have lived through the crash, but he is still fighting to live again.
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