An Air India plane crashed soon after takeoff from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.There were 242 people on board, including 10 cabin crew and two pilots.One passenger has been found alive, India's home minister said.

The man who walked away from the Air India plane crash as the disaster's only survivor was sitting near an emergency exit on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.

Air India has confirmed that one passenger survived Thursday's airplane crash, which had 242 passengers and crew members on board.

Air India crash survivor Viswashkumar Ramesh has been released from hospital. In an interview with Aaj Tak, he shared that he is heading home and will do the cremation of his younger brother on Wednesday.

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

A new video from the Ahmedabad Air India crash shows the sole survivor, Ramesh Vishwas Kumar, in a white t-shirt, walking away from the blazing wreckage while talking on the phone. pic.twitter.com/G1DSkhA9Bh

Both of the "black boxes" were recovered from the wreckage of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in India after after all but one of the 242 people onboard died.

The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.