Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of the Air India crash on June 12 that killed 241 people. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was en route from Ahmedabad to London when it crashed into a doctors’ hostel shortly after takeoff. A mayday call had been made moments earlier.

Ramesh, seated in 11A—an emergency exit row—miraculously escaped. “When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I stood up and ran,” he said. A new video shows him walking through smoke, holding his phone, as someone leads him away. He later recalled pushing through a gap in the wreckage to escape: “I still can’t believe how I survived. I walked out of the rubble.”

Now recovering in Gujarat, India, Ramesh is struggling emotionally. “He can’t sleep at night… He remembers seeing everyone die in front of his eyes,” said his nephew. He feels haunted by the loss of his brother, Ajay, who sat elsewhere on the plane: “It’s a miracle I survived… but I feel terrible I could not save Ajay.”

A preliminary investigation found confusion between the pilots, with one reportedly asking, “Why did you cut off?” to which the other replied, “I did not do so.” Families of the victims are now pursuing legal action.