Vishwashkumar, who was sitting in seat 11a on the Air India flight, is receiving treatment at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital, where he has been visited by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who also attended the bedside of locals who were not onboard the plane but were struck and injured by the crash.

This week’s horrifying plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, happened at a critical juncture in the history of Air India, one of the world’s oldest airlines and the country’s flagship.

Only the passenger in seat 11A on Air India Flight 171 lived to tell the tale, a survival nothing short of a miracle.