People stand next to a condolence banner as they wait for the body of Sumeet Sabharwal, a pilot who died when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed during take-off from an airport, to be handed over to his family in Mumbai, India, June 17, 2025. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani

Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel in Ahmedabad say their first reaction was to help treat the injured.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

Two different survivors of deadly plane crashes decades apart say they both sat in seat 11A. Is there something that makes that seat safter than others? Not according to aviation and disaster medicine experts.

There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel say their first reaction was to help treat the injured