Leaving hospital with wounds still fresh, the sole survivor of last week’s Air India plane crash solemnly carried the coffin of his brother, performing the last rites for a life lost in the deadly disaster.

Vishwaskumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, said he "thought I would die" as he recovers in hospital.

The British man who was the sole survivor of last week's Air India plane crash has helped lay his brother to rest at a funeral in western India. Vishwashkumar Ramesh's brother Ajay was also on the ill-fated flight but did not survive the tragedy.

As unbelievable as the story of the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash may sound, it's happened before. It's rare, but in recent decades, several other people have been the lone survivors of plane crashes.

There is no evidence that the sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June, Viswashkumar Ramesh, was arrested by police shortly after the incident, contrary to posts shared on social media.

The Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12.

A British man from Leicester, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, was the sole survivor of the crash that killed more than 260.