So I thought, whatever I can do, I should.”At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived.

There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.