The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel when the plane crashed into a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday.

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.

Air India plane crash investigators reportedly find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.