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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Anthony France

British father had been booked on doomed Air India plane but changed flights - and was due to fly in 11A ‘miracle seat’

Officials inspect the site of Thursday’s Air India plane crash (Ajit Solanki/AP) - (AP)

A British father who was due to be on board a doomed Air India plane that crashed last week decided to change flights at the last minute, it emerged.

Businessman Owen Jackson, 31, was placed in the same miracle Seat 11A as the sole survivor of the tragedy, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40.

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