Air India survivor: Luckiest man alive?

Social Commenter Santosh Desai shares his insights on Ramesh Vishwaskumar, the sole Air India Crash survivor who was seated on 11A.

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00:00This man called Vishwas Kumar Rakesh, who was sitting on seat 11A on that Air India plane,

00:06do you think he's the luckiest man in history?

00:07I'm sure that there are some people who are even luckier, but he is incredibly lucky.

00:11I mean, to be the sole survivor out of this, in an impossible situation,

00:18this is a plane with a full load of fuel,

00:22which makes hard contact with inhabited city

00:27and blows up and the heat and to be the one person,

00:33you have to ask yourself some very, very significant questions

00:38as to what did I do to deserve this?

00:40I mean, it is existentially, I can imagine it being at one level very fortunate

00:44and at another level very challenging.

00:45How do you justify to yourself that, you know, how do you make sense of it?

00:50Justify, I think, is a wrong word perhaps.

00:52Making sense of something like this is just luck.

00:54It's just relief.

00:56I think it's also a sense of saying, why?

00:58I mean, why me?

00:59Why me for the right reasons?

01:00I mean, sometimes...

01:01Well, for great reasons.

01:02I mean, without no complaints.

01:04Normally, why me is used as a complaint.

01:06Here, it would be like, wow, I mean, you know,

01:08I must have done something really right.

01:10Enough to make you believe in reincarnation.

01:12Enough to make you believe in all kinds of things,

01:14you know, because it is just so incredibly fortunate.