Thai singer Ruangsak Loychsuk, who survived a 1998 plane crash, shared a chilling coincidence after learning that the sole survivor of the recent Air India crash in Ahmedabad was seated in the exact same seat, 11A, as he was during his own 1998 disaster.
On December 11, 1998, 20-year-old Ruangsak Loychusak cheated death when Thai Airways Flight TG261 stalled and plunged into a swamp while attempting to land in southern Thailand, killing 101 of the 146 people on board.
Ruangsak, now 47, said he had goosebumps after learning that Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national who had a miraculous escape in the Air India Flight AI171 crash, was seated in 11A when the plane went down.
“The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps”, Loychusak wrote on Facebook in Thai.
Ruangsak shared that the crash left deep trauma. For 10 years, he feared flying, avoided people and got anxious seeing clouds.
“I avoided speaking to anyone and always stared outside the window, blocking anyone from closing it to maintain my sense of safety,” he said. “If I saw dark clouds or a rainstorm outside, I would feel terrible, like I was in hell. I can still remember the sounds, smells, and even the taste of the water in the swamp the plane crashed into. For a long time, I would keep the feelings to myself.”
Though he doesn’t have his old boarding pass, newspaper reports confirmed his seat number. He offered condolences to all who lost loved ones in the recent tragedy and said surviving gave him a “second life”.
The Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, en route to London Gatwick, crashed into buildings shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, June 12, 2025. The aircraft exploded in a fireball, killing 243 of the 244 people on board.
The only survivor, Ramesh from Leicester, England, sharing his shocking account of the disaster, described how he was “ejected” from the jet before it hit the ground and exploded. “I don’t know how I came out of it alive. For a while, I thought I was about to die. But when I opened my eyes, I saw I was alive. And I opened my seatbelt and got out of there,” adding how two cabin crew members “died before my eyes.”
His seat, located beside the emergency exit, detached as the aircraft struck the ground, an occurrence that may have saved his life. He recalled how the pilots tried to raise the jet, but it “went full speed and crashed into the building.”
Ramesh explained how the plane quickly caught fire following the crash, and said he burned his arm.
“When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me. Someone grabbed hold of me and put me in an ambulance and brought me to the hospital,” he said.
No one can explain a coincidence like that. Two men, years apart, both surviving the impossible — from the same seat.
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