Captain Ross “Rusty” Aimer — a retired United Airways pilot and the CEO of Aero Consulting Specialists — dissects potential the reason why the solo Air India survivor walked away from the tragic crash website the place lots of died … and he says it could have every thing to do with the place the person was sitting.

As , final week, an Air India flight tragically crashed moments after taking off, killing greater than 200 passengers on board — however, one flier was seen strolling away from the explosion, virtually untouched.

Capt. Rusty tells us there’s not essentially a “most secure” seat an individual can sit in on a aircraft, but when you may get as shut as potential to any emergency exit door, your possibilities of strolling off a aircraft if it goes down positively improve.

The knowledgeable provides that being near an emergency exit — like Viswash Kumar Ramesh‘s seat 11A was on this aircraft — permits the passenger to be the primary off the aircraft within the worst eventualities, which may imply life or dying inside a matter of seconds.

He factors out in Ramesh‘s case, you’ll be able to see in movies of the explosion there was a ton of gasoline, however Ramesh was apparently saved from the inferno by sitting ahead of gasoline tanks positioned by the wings.

Nonetheless, the retired pilot desires to emphasise there’s no such factor as a assured secure seat on any sort of plane. He jokes pilots are normally the primary to reach at a crash website … however in each aircraft crash occasion, every seat’s degree of security varies relying on the character of the incident.