A passenger owes his survival in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash in India to luck, not his position on board. This is the opinion of aviation expert Angad Singh.
40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was sitting in seat 11A in economy class next to the emergency exit. According to the expert, this seat did not play a decisive role in saving the passenger. “It was luck. There is no talk of any advantage of a particular seat on the plane.“ “Seat 11A is in the middle of the plane, in front of the wing - statistically it is not among the safest“, the analyst was quoted by NDTV.
As Singh recalled, statistically, seats either in the tail or in the front of the fuselage provide a greater chance of survival in a plane crash. “But in this case we have an exception. The fact that this person escaped the fireball and the completely destroyed plane can only be explained by a miracle or a blessing from above,“ the expert noted. According to him, no landing pattern can guarantee survival.
The captain of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in India reported to air traffic controllers before the crash that the engines were not producing the necessary thrust during takeoff.
The last messages the pilot transmitted to air traffic controllers were: “thrust not achieved“, “falling“, “communication line very weak during transmission“, “distress signal“. The plane then crashed in a residential area 2 km from the airport of departure.