"It felt like the plane came to a standstill (in the air) for 5 to 10 seconds," 40-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh said. He was in seat 11A when the Air India flight crashed.

Ahmedabad: Satinder Singh Sandhu, a 108 ambulance driver, became one of the first responders to witness and react to the catastrophic crash of Air India Flight AI171 in Ahmedabad. What began as a routine lunch break turned into a race against time when a thunderous explosion jolted the BJ Medical College campus on Thursday afternoon.

Air India has confirmed 241 of the 242 people aboard flight AI171 died in this morning's Ahmedabad crash, with British passenger Vishwash Kumar Ramesh the sole survivor. The news comes as three UK nationals who were among the victims of the plane crash were named.

There was a loud noise just 30 seconds after takeoff and then the plane crashed, said Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Air India flight AI171 that crashed in Ahmedabad today.