{"id":292148,"date":"2025-06-14T04:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/sole-survivor-of-air-india-crash-has-an-incredible-story-but-hes-not-unique\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:29:51","slug":"sole-survivor-of-air-india-crash-has-an-incredible-story-but-hes-not-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=292148","title":{"rendered":"Sole survivor of Air India crash has an incredible story \u2014 but he&#8217;s not unique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c89pzj02j73o\">miracle<\/a>. Stunning. Unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the reactions online and in headlines around the world about\u00a0Vishwashkumar Ramesh, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/air-india-plane-crash-survivor-1.7559787\">sole survivor of the Air India crash<\/a> that killed 241 people on board and several more\u00a0on the ground after the plane crashed minutes after takeoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dreamliner struck a medical college hostel when it crashed in a ball of fire into a residential area of the northwestern Indian city of\u00a0Ahmedabad\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0DNA testing was being conducted to identify bodies that were mostly charred beyond recognition. More victims are expected to be found in the search of the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>And then, there&#8217;s Ramesh, who police say managed to escape through the broken emergency exit\u00a0on the\u00a0Boeing 787-8 bound for London.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. media have dubbed it the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c89pzj02j73o\">miracle of seat 11A<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0Widely shared video purports to show Ramesh\u00a0limping on the street in a blood-stained T-shirt with bruises on his face (the video has not be independently verified by CBC News) before he is led to an ambulance.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The cover of The Daily Telegraph Newspaper. The headline says The miracle of seat 11A. The photo is a man lying in a hospital bed.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560570.1749842403!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/headline-air-india.jpg?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.091581868640148\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Friday&#8217;s front page of U.K. newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Media outlets have referred to Ramesh&#8217;s survival as the &#8216;miracle of seat 11A.&#8217;<!-- --> <!-- -->(The Daily Telegraph\/Press Reader)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe how I survived,&#8221;\u00a040-year-old\u00a0Ramesh\u00a0told\u00a0Indian state broadcaster DD News from his hospital bed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As unbelievable as Ramesh&#8217;s story may sound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0even to him\u00a0\u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s happened before. It&#8217;s rare, but in recent decades, several other people have been the lone survivors of plane crashes.<\/p>\n<p>And while each of their stories may sound like miracles, one expert says it&#8217;s more about a number of unlikely variables aligning.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wood, an associate clinical professor\u00a0at Northeastern University in Boston and\u00a0expert in disaster medicine\u00a0and EMS, said it&#8217;s &#8220;extraordinarily rare&#8221; for someone to survive a plane crash of the magnitude of Air India&#8217;s.\u00a0Commercial airliners are engineered for safety, but in catastrophic, high-impact crashes, the forces involved often exceed survivable limits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s understandable that people are calling it a miracle, given the circumstances,&#8221; he told CBC News.<\/p>\n<div><em><strong>WATCH | Survivor appears to walk away from\u00a0crash site:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<span><span class=\"mediaEmbed\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui-container  \" data-cy=\"player-placeholder-ui-container\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-video-ui\" title=\"Sole survivor walks away after fiery Air India crash kills hundreds\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7778\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui\">\n<div class=\"video-item video-card-overlay\" title=\"Sole survivor walks away after fiery Air India crash kills hundreds\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/d0ddadb1-f791-4150-9049-86a1f416dcf6,1749777346513\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1920%2C1080%29%3BResize%3D620\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-card-overlay-container\">\n<div class=\"video-info-container\">\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Sole survivor walks away after fiery Air India crash kills hundreds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"media-caption\">A fiery plane crash in western India has left a single surviving passenger, a British national, who reportedly walked from the site to an ambulance. The London-bound Air India Boeing 787 went down just after takeoff with 242 people aboard, including at least one Canadian.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>But from a technical perspective, Wood added, survival in these kinds of events is &#8220;usually due to a confluence of rare but explainable factors, including the aircraft&#8217;s breakup pattern, impact dynamics, the survivor&#8217;s position and condition, and sometimes just seconds of timing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In disaster medicine, we refer to this as a &#8216;sole survivor&#8217;\u00a0event, and globally, these occur perhaps once every few decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Other sole survivors of plane crashes<\/h2>\n<p>There are dozens of sole survivors of plane crashes, on flights big and small, dating back to at least 1929. That&#8217;s when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1929\/06\/08\/archives\/pilot-foote-takes-to-air-again.html\">Lou Foote<\/a>, an American pilot, survived when a sightseeing plane crashed near the Newark, N.J.,\u00a0airport, killing 14 people. According to the New York Times, he returned to the skies three months later.<\/p>\n<p>You have to skip forward a few decades to get to sole survivors of larger flights. In 1970, there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1970\/08\/11\/archives\/peru-crash-victims-are-mourned-across-the-state.html\">Juan Loo<\/a>, the co-pilot of a\u00a0Peruvian airliner that crashed and killed 99 people.\u00a0It had taken off\u00a0minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, Juliane Koepcke\u00a0was 17 when she survived\u00a0LANSA\u00a0Flight 508, which killed 91 others, including her mother, when it crashed into the Peruvian jungle after being struck by lighting.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A woman in a floral shirt poses outside\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560667.1749842678!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/juliane-koepcke.jpg?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Peruvian-German conservationist Juliane Koepcke poses in Lima in 2014. Koepcke is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon in 1971.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Ernesto Benavides\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It was pitch black and people were screaming, then the deep roaring of the engines filled my head completely,&#8221;\u00a0she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-17476615\">BBC in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suddenly the noise stopped and I was outside the plane. I was in a freefall, strapped to my seat bench and hanging head-over-heels&#8230;\u00a0I could see the canopy of the jungle spinning towards me. Then I lost consciousness and remember nothing of the impact.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She survived the 3,000-metre fall after the plane broke into pieces, plus another 10 days wandering the jungle alone and injured.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-38427411\">flight attendant\u00a0Vesna Vulovi\u0107<\/a>, who survived Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 in 1972. The plane exploded midair from a\u00a0suspected bomb, killing all other 27 passenger and crew.<\/p>\n<p>According to BBC,\u00a0Vulovi\u0107\u00a0was trapped by a food cart in the plane&#8217;s tail section as it fell 10,000 metres to earth. It&#8217;s thought that the heavy snow helped cushion the impact.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman's face\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3914661.1749842738!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/vesna-vulovi.jpg?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.669024045261669\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Vesna Vulovi\u0107, pictured in 1972, survived JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 that year. The plane exploded midair from a suspected bomb, killing all other 27 passengers and crew except her.<!-- --> <!-- -->(The Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever I think of the accident, I have a prevailing, grave feeling of guilt for surviving it and I cry,&#8221; she told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/hei-fi\/news\/downtoearth-survivor-still-going-40-years-on-6295024.html\">Independent in 2012<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More recently,\u00a0Mail\u00e9n D\u00edaz Almaguer\u00a0survived a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/plane-crash-havana-cuba-1.4670560\">2018 plane crash in Havana that killed 112 others<\/a>.\u00a0The Boeing 737 went down and erupted in flames shortly after takeoff. Two other women initially survived the crash but died of their injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A highway littered with debris and body bags\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560712.1749842777!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/flight-255-crash-survivor.jpg?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.542483660130719\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">In this photo taken Aug. 16, 1987, bodies covered by bags are strewn across the hillsides flanking Middlebelt Road in Romulus, Mich., after a Northwest Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Cecelia Crocker, who was four, survived.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Dale Atkins\/The Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Children among sole survivors<\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes, the sole survivors are children, like\u00a0Cecelia Crocker \u2014 known as Cecelia Cichan at the time of the 1987 crash \u2014 who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 255 when it crashed in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, Mich., killing 154 people on board, including her parents and brother. She was four.<\/p>\n<p>Crocker said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-national-national-movies-arts-and-entertainment-462ae312403c4395bd1187239fbf49f8\">2013 documentary<\/a>\u00a0that she thought about the crash every day and that she had scars on her arms, legs and forehead. She had also gotten an airplane tattoo on her wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Bahia Bakari, then 12, lived through a flight that crashed near the Comoros\u00a0islands in 2009.\u00a0Yemenia Airways Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean between the southeastern African coast and Madagascar. The other 152 passengers, including Bahia&#8217;s mother, all died.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A girl lies in a hospital bed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560740.1749842878!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bahia-bakari.jpg?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4622057001239157\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Bahia Bakari, 12, lies in her hospital bed on July 1, 2009, after she survived the Yemenia Airlines crash off the Comoros islands. She was ejected from the plane into the Indian Ocean.  <!-- --> <!-- -->(Stephane De Sakutin\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the plane plunged into the ocean, she grasped a floating part of the destroyed plane and stayed in the water for more than 11 hours before being saved by fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>Bakari was taken to hospital in the capital, Moroni, then repatriated to France. She suffered a broken collarbone, a broken hip, burns and other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ruben van Assouw\u00a0survived the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus that crashed on approach to Tripoli, killing 103 passengers and crew on May 12, 2010.\u00a0The nine-year-old Dutch boy was still strapped to his seat, unconscious but still breathing, his legs shattered amid the debris scattered in the Libyan desert sand.<\/p>\n<p>He was travelling home from a safari with his parents and brother and learned that he was the sole survivor only days later.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Survival doesn&#8217;t always bring resolution&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Ramesh, the Air India survivor,\u00a0suffered burns and bruises and has been kept under observation, an official at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told Reuters by phone, requesting anonymity.\u00a0Ramesh\u00a0also lost his brother in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His escape &#8230; and without any grievous injury, was nothing short of a miracle. He also realizes that and is a bit shaken by the trauma of it, too,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Several critical variables had to align in this case for him to survive, suggested Wood, the disaster medicine expert.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\">\n<div class=\"placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The rubble of an airplane in a  crash site\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.7560418.1749843078!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/india-crash-airindia.JPG?im=\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4993646759847523\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">A fire officer stands next to the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday. <!-- --> <!-- -->(Adnan Abidi\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>First,\u00a0Ramesh&#8217;s\u00a0seat, which was near an emergency exit over the wing, may have placed him in a structurally reinforced zone. Second, the angle and speed of impact\u00a0may have created a &#8220;survivability pocket,&#8221; or an &#8220;isolated area within the fuselage that was not crushed or engulfed in fire,&#8221; Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, factors like being properly restrained, remaining conscious\u00a0and leaving the area quickly may have contributed significantly, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are all rare circumstances that would need to come together precisely,&#8221; Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>George Lamson Jr., then a 17-year-old from Plymouth, Minn., was on a Galaxy Airlines flight that crashed in Reno, Nev.,\u00a0in 1985. Of the 71 passengers and crew on board the charter flight, he was the only survivor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/georgelamsonjr\/posts\/pfbid0e9y49jM9RAqygTUoJtqVsYR3ybo9gebW5ZEZsVY9jy1Gzv7r5QxEH8ycGTRdvTzJl\">Lamson in a social media post Thursday<\/a> said the news of a plane crash in India with only one survivor shook him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These events don&#8217;t just make headlines. They leave a lasting echo in the lives of those who&#8217;ve lived through something similar,&#8221; he\u00a0wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Survival doesn&#8217;t always bring resolution. Life keeps unfolding after something like that, and the weight of it can show up years later in ways you don&#8217;t expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em><strong>WATCH | A survivor&#8217;s story:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span><span class=\"mediaEmbed\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui-container  \" data-cy=\"player-placeholder-ui-container\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-video-ui\" title=\"A Survivor's Story: Resolute Bay plane crash\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7778\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"player-placeholder-ui\">\n<div class=\"video-item video-card-overlay\" title=\"A Survivor's Story: Resolute Bay plane crash\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/1.1714049,1717138591185\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C852%2C479%29%3BResize%3D620\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-card-overlay-container\">\n<div class=\"video-info-container\">\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">A Survivor&#8217;s Story: Resolute Bay plane crash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"media-caption\">Nicole Williamson, one of three people who survived the plane crash in Resolute Bay last month, speaks with Peter Mansbridge about the moment of impact, her escape from the wreckage, and her recovery<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A miracle. Stunning. 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