Crowds gather to remember victims of Air India crash at Hindu temple in Lancashire

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A 40-year-old British national miraculously survived the Air India plane crash which occurred shortly after take-off in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.  Friends of the man who survived the crash say they're still shocked he's lived to tell the tale.

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00:00I'm in Leicester in the English Midlands, which has been hit particularly hard by the Air India crash.

00:07This is considered the heart of the Gujarati community in the United Kingdom.

00:12Gujarat, of course, is the state in which Ahmedabad is in.

00:16And we've been speaking to people today who say that they've taken that exact flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick.

00:23It's very popular in this area and many of them knew the 53 British citizens on board.

00:29We've been speaking to friends of Mr Ramesh, the 40-year-old here today, who say they're overjoyed that he survived.

00:36They're all so devastated that so many people lost their lives.

00:40Oh my God, he's the only one. How come, I mean, the rest of the passengers, where are they?

00:49And finally we came to know he's the only one who survived.

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