The improbable survival of Vishwa Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash that claimed 241 lives, has ignited a maelstrom of discourse on social media, prompting comparisons to analogous, albeit exceptionally rare, instances throughout aviation history where a lone individual defied catastrophic odds; Ramesh's reported ejection from the aircraft, followed by his disoriented, injury-laden trek to seek aid, echoes the experiences of Cecilia Cichan, sole survivor of the 1987 Northwest Airlines crash precipitated by a wing's fatal encounter with a light pole during takeoff that killed 154, as well as George Lamson Jr., who emerged from the fiery wreckage of the 1985 Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 in Reno, Baha Lahari, the sole survivor of the Yemenia Flight 626 crash near the Comoros Islands in 2009, and Jim Polehinke, the only soul to survive the Comair Flight 5191 disaster in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2006, thereby underscoring the statistically anomalous phenomenon of solitary survival in otherwise universally fatal aviation incidents.