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News24 | ‘There were bodies all around me’: Survivor of Air India crash jumped out of emergency exit

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News24 | ‘There were bodies all around me’: Survivor of Air India crash jumped out of emergency exitRamesh Viswashkumar, the only known survivor out of the 242 people onboard an Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight and managed to jump out, police said.
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