Viswashkumar Ramesh, 40, the sole survivor of Air India Flight 171, is among the ranks of those spared by fate.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

Ground teams have recovered the black box of the ill-fated Air India aircraft that went down in a fiery crash earlier this morning. Was it a mechanical failure, human error, or something more sinister?