Bandaged lone Air India survivor carries coffin of brother killed in crash

The bruised and battered sole survivor of the Air India plane tragedy helped carry his brother’s coffin Wednesday after his sibling was among the more than 240 killed in last week’s crash.

A visibly upset Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was covered in bandages as he laid his brother, Ajay Ramesh, to rest during the funeral service in Gujarat in western India.

The 40-year-old British national was spotted walking with a limp as he and the other pallbearers carried his late sibling’s coffin through the streets.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was covered in bandages as he laid his brother, Ajay Ramesh, to rest during the funeral service in Gujarat in western India on Wednesday. ViralPress

Ramesh and his 35-year-old brother had been sitting near each other on the London-bound flight when it suddenly went down in a residential neighborhood in Ahmedabad last Thursday.

The brothers had been returned to the UK after visiting relatives in India.

In the wake of the wreckage, harrowing footage emerged of a blood-soaked Ramesh miraculously limping away from the site still clutching his boarding pass.

“The side of the plane I was in landed on the ground, and I could see that there was space outside the aircraft, so when my door broke, I tried to escape through it,” Ramesh said from his hospital bed in the aftermath.

Ramesh, pictured speaking to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spent much of the last week in hospital. NARENDRA MODI YOUTUBE CHANNEL/AFP via Getty Images

“I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out. I still can’t believe how I survived. I walked out of the rubble.”

Ramesh said he had been sitting in seat 11A, while his brother was seated in 11J when the plane went down.

Investigators are still probing a cause of the tragedy.