After being turned away from the Air India flight that crashed on Thursday, June 12, a woman is counting her blessings.
Tragic events occurred shortly after the aircraft took off from Ahmedabad, India, on a trip that was meant to be headed to London Gatwick. Thirty seconds into the flight, the plane crashed.
Bhoomi Chauhan was one of the more than 200 passengers on board the aircraft.
Bhoomi, a British national, was returning home to Bristol, UK, following a vacation in western India.
On Thursday, she was returning to England, but she got to the airport less than an hour before she was scheduled to leave. Staff refused to allow Bhoomi board the Air India flight since she was ten minutes late for boarding.
What caused her tardiness? bad traffic.
She told the BBC, “I tried everything, but I was unable to get to the airport.” “In Ahmedabad, we were caught in traffic. We were caught in a traffic jam as we had to drive into the city to go to the airport.
Bhoomi continued: “I was fifteen to twenty minutes late to the airport because of traffic congestion. I arrived at the airport around 12:20, even though my flight was scheduled to depart at 13:10.
She was not permitted to board since the airline had stopped check-in for the aircraft ten minutes before boarding was scheduled to start.
Bhoomi added, “We became very irate with our driver and left the airport in frustration.”
After leaving the airport, we stopped for a cup of tea and, just before we departed, we spoke with the travel agent about how to get our money back. I received a call there informing me that the jet had gone down.
She called the fact that she wasn’t on the plane as scheduled a “miracle.”
Regretfully, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the only survivor of Thursday’s disaster.
Vishwash recounted the events that transpired on the aircraft in an interview with the Hindustan Times.
“The plane made a loud noise thirty seconds after takeoff, and then it crashed. “Everything happened so fast,” he remarked.
“There were bodies everywhere when I woke up. I felt frightened. I got up and took off running. I was surrounded by parts of the plane. I was taken to the hospital by someone who grabbed me and got me into an ambulance.
