The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash.

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The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people said he escaped through a broken emergency exit after the aircraft crashed into a medical college hostel in the city of Ahmedabad."

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00:00Everything happened in front of my eyes.

00:04I don't know how I survived.

00:07For some time I thought I was also going to die.

00:13But when I opened my eyes, I realised I was alive

00:16and I tried to unbuckle myself from the seat and escape from where I could.

00:22It was in front of my eyes that the air hostess and others died.

00:28After the take-off, within a minute,

00:32it felt like the plane came to a standstill for five to ten seconds.

00:36The green and white cabin lights turned on in the flight.

00:40I could feel engine thrust increasing to go up,

00:44but it crashed with speed into the building.

00:49The side of the plane I was in, it landed on the ground floor of the hostel.

00:57I don't know about the other part of the plane, but where I landed was on the ground.

01:05I could see that there was space outside the aircraft.

01:11So when my door broke, I tried to escape through a little space, and I did.

01:15On the opposite side of the plane was the building wall, so nobody could have escaped.

01:27The plane crashed there. There was some space where I landed.

01:31I don't know how I managed to escape.

01:34It was in front of my eyes that the air hostess and others died.

01:37The air hostess and others died.

01:39The air hostess and others died.

01:41The air hostess and others died.

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