When a lone man staggered out of a complex of buildings on which an Air India plane crashed before blowing up just outside Ahmedabad airport in June this year , it was nothing short of a miracle. He was filmed emerging from the crash site, visibly dazed. And when he spoke his first words, they sounded incoherent. Vishwaskumar Ramesh, a British national, was the sole survivor of the crash in which over 260 people perished in one of the worst aviation crashes in history.

A little over three months after that tragic day, family members of four of the deceased passengers filed a lawsuit in the US on September 16, suing the plane manufacturer, Boeing, and aircraft component maker, Honeywell, for negligence.

What is puzzling is that even though international aviation safety agencies and the airline pursued their own investigations, a preliminary report in July 2025 said that the plane may have crashed after fuel to the engines was cut off seconds after it took off. A fuller investigation report is expected around June 2026.