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.

Air India Flight 171 to London crashed into an Ahmedabad neighborhood shortly after takeoff. At least 269 people died, police said. One passenger survived.