Amidst the calamitous Air India plane crash that claimed 241 lives, Vishwaskumar Ramesh, the sole survivor, has become a subject of intense debate on social media, representing an almost unprecedented anomaly; reports suggest that Ramesh, ejected from the aircraft, navigated his way to an ambulance despite sustaining extensive injuries and experiencing profound disorientation.

Over the past decades, a handful of isolated incidents have occurred wherein a solitary individual defied overwhelming odds to emerge as the sole survivor of catastrophic disasters: Cecilia Cichan, in 1987, survived a crash that claimed 154 lives after the aircraft's wing struck a utility pole during takeoff; George Lamson Jr. survived a 1985 Reno crash; Bahia Bakari survived the 2009 Yemenia Flight 626 crash near the Comoros Islands; and Jim Polehinke was the only survivor of the 2006 Comair Flight 5191 crash in Lexington, Kentucky.