Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the Air India crash, carried his brother Ajay's coffin at a funeral in India on June 18; The 40-year-old British national was sitting j

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed seconds after takeoff on Thursday.

As Air India Flight AI171 descended toward its doom on Thursday, Ramesh Vishwaskumar sat in the first row of economy class — headed for one of the most harrowing and luckiest moments of his life.