<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The world was shocked by the plane crash in India that killed hundreds.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But focus after the disaster quickly shifted to the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/air-india-crash-uk-man-reportedly-survives-plane-crash-in-ahmedabad/37171360-3df7-49c1-8cd1-a0bfc2edcc22" rel="" target="" title="sole survivor who somehow survived the crash"><span>sole survivor who somehow survived the crash</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was somehow thrown clear when the Air India flight exploded and split in two.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Even more remarkably, Ramesh was able to walk away from the crash with only minor injuries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It seems like an unthinkable fluke, but Ramesh is not the first person to survive a plane crash through bizarre and surprising circumstances.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Here are some other remarkable plane crash survival stories.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>Llandow crash</span></strong></h2></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/sole-survivors-of-plane-crashes-why-do-people-survive-crashes-when-noone-else-does/ff70f491-497c-4757-8b41-18952b77f586" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Eighty people were killed in what was then the world's worst air disaster in 1950.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The plane stalled on landing at Llandow Aerodrome in Wales and broke into pieces on landing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Avro Tudor V had been stripped so more seats could be put on board for the trip to watch Wales play Ireland in a rugby international.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two survivors sitting in the newly installed seats at the tail walked away from the crash unharmed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The only other survivor was a passenger who was in the toilet as the plane landed. He spent four months in hospital.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-march-12-what-happened-on-this-day-ponzi-scheme/becd6a38-6a6d-4620-855c-b2dca99dced9#6" rel="" target="" title="Read the full story"><strong><span>Read the full story</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>The 3km fall</span></strong></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The chances of surviving a mid-air plane explosion are so small that it is almost beyond comprehension.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Flying over the Amazon rainforest on Christmas Eve, 1971, a Lockheed L-188A flew into a dark cloud and was struck by lightning.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/juliane-koepcke-german-teen-plane-explosion-survivor-peru-amazon-jungle-survival-story/8d5ea207-6dd3-4a88-9d18-a52194566cb0" rel="" target="" title="Teenage girl Juliane Koepcke"><span>Teenage girl Juliane Koepcke</span></a><span> was the sole survivor and recounted how the plane went into a nosedive.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Suddenly the noise stopped and I was outside the plane. I was in a freefall, strapped to my seat bench and hanging head-over-heels.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The whispering of the wind was the only noise I could hear."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The teen blacked out as she was spinning uncontrollably to the ground, so it is not certain how she survived the landing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But ploughing through more than 30m of the thick leaves and branches of the Amazon rainforest canopy had slowed her down enough that the final impact did not kill her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/juliane-koepcke-german-teen-plane-explosion-survivor-peru-amazon-jungle-survival-story/8d5ea207-6dd3-4a88-9d18-a52194566cb0" rel="" target="" title="Read the full story"><strong><span>Read the full story</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>The plane bombing survivor</span></strong></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When a briefcase bomb exploded on a Yugoslavian plane in 1972, 23 passengers and four crewmembers were sucked out of the wreckage. The chances of any surviving were surely zero.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But, locals from a nearby village rushed to the wreckage and found </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/vesna-vulovic-flight-attendant--fell-10km-plane-bombing-survival-no-parachute-serbia-news/7a369341-a6f1-41b5-9a66-9bf6dd9ffb34" rel="" target="" title="22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovic"><span>22-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulovic</span></a><span> still strapped into her seat and very much alive.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She fell from a distance of ten kilometres up – no one has ever fallen from that high without a parachute and survived.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An explosion in the baggage department split the plane into several pieces, sucking the passengers and other flight crew out of the plane.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Vulovic was pinned in the fuselage by a food cart, keeping her in place as it fell to the ground.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her section of the aircraft landed at an angle on a snowy mountainside in then-Czechoslovakia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The trees and the snow, as well as the angle of the mountain, made for a softer landing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/vesna-vulovic-flight-attendant--fell-10km-plane-bombing-survival-no-parachute-serbia-news/7a369341-a6f1-41b5-9a66-9bf6dd9ffb34" rel="" target="" title="Read the full story"><strong><span>Read the full story</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>Stranded in the ocean</span></strong></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bahia Bakari was a 12-year-old returning from a wedding when the Yemen Airways plane she was in crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Clinging to wreckage in the pitch black, Bakari remembered hearing cries for help from other passengers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But when help finally arrived 11 hours later, she was the only one still alive.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bakari suffered a broken collarbone, a broken hip, burns and other injuries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But she had no lasting physical injuries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/lone-survivor-of-2009-plane-crash-testifies-in-paris-court/332f2c24-bfc0-41ae-9f21-c7a909260dbc" rel="" target="" title="Read the full story"><strong><span>Read the full story</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h2><strong><span>The safest spot?</span></strong></h2></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashed on landing after a bird strike in December last year, the only survivors were two flight attendants seated at the rear of the plane.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The crash split the fuselage, separating where the attendants were sitting from the remainder of the plane.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But despite the old adage, the rear is not necessarily the safest part of the plane.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There isn't any data that shows a correlation of seating to survivability," says Hassan Shahidi, president of the Flight Safety Foundation said after the crash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Every accident is different."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/plane-crash-accident-survival-south-korea-jeju-air-azerbaijan-disasters/74dfb479-1e4e-4c1a-9fe2-b6f2aadbce47" rel="" target="" title="Read the full story"><strong><span>Read the full story</span></strong></a></div></div>