Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, has been released from the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. In a telephonic conversation with Aaj Tak, Ramesh confirmed that he is heading home and will perform the last rites of his younger brother on Wednesday.

Ramesh, an Indian-origin British national, was amongst the 242 people on board the London-bound flight that crashed shortly after take-off on April 12, slamming into the BJ Medical College hostel and canteen.

The aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was en route to London’s Gatwick Airport when the tragedy occurred. This was the first fatal accident involving a 787 since the model entered commercial service in 2011.

Ramesh was seated in 11A, next to the emergency exit, when the aircraft broke apart. His seat detached and was flung clear of the wreckage, sparing him from the massive fireball that followed. “The plane broke, and my seat came off,” he had earlier told doctors.

“The place where I landed was low…I took off the seat belt and for a moment, I was scared for my life. But I was near ground level, so I tried to get out,” he told DD News.

A video of him emerging from the BJ Medical campus shortly after the plane crash had gone viral earlier. Following this, he was admitted to a hospital. Earlier, several leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, met him at the hospital.

Ramesh has since described his survival as nothing short of a miracle and expressed disbelief at how he lived through the crash. “I can’t believe how I survived,” Ramesh told reporters. “I thought I would die. People died in front of my eyes,” he added.