Air India plane crash: Wrapped in blanket, medico walks out of hostel inferno | India News

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AKOLA: Aishwarya Toshniwal, a 30-year-old medical scholar from Akola in Maharashtra, was in her hostel when the Air India flight crashed into the BJ Medical College hospital mess, simply metres away. She has not stopped thanking her future since she got here out of the constructing unscathed, experiences Dhananjay Sable.Jolted by the explosion, Aishwarya watched with horror the leaping flames and smouldering particles from the fifth-floor window of her hostel constructing. The plane had nose-dived into the diagonally reverse constructing. The smoke and fireplace had been spreading quick, and wreckage was being tossed in all instructions. Instead of panicking, Aishwarya, who was well-versed with each nook and nook of the constructing, wrapped herself in a blanket and rushed out. She was breathless and choking, and even suffered burns, whereas navigating her approach to the bottom by the smoke-filled stairways and corridors in pitch darkness. “This will stay with me for the rest of my life. I’ve never been so close to death,” she mentioned.