Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad last week and he was sitting in an exit row, but an expert attributes Ramesh’s survival largely to the “luck of th

There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.

At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.