Thai musician Ruangsak Loychusak, who survived a 1998 Thai Airways crash that claimed 101 lives, recently expressed his shock after learning that the sole survivor of the recent Air India tragedy—Vishwash Kumar Ramesh—had been seated in the exact same seat he once occupied: 11A.

Back in 1998, Ruangsak’s flight crash-landed in a swamp. Now 47, he still remembers the trauma, admitting he avoided flying for years and struggled with flashbacks.

The Air India crash happened just minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, bound for London, slammed into a residential building. Of the 244 people onboard, only Ramesh, a 40-year-old from Leicester, England, survived. He later told doctors it felt like the plane had gotten “stuck in the air” before it broke apart mid-flight. Thrown from the wreckage near an emergency exit, he managed to crawl away—injured, but alive. Tragically, his brother was among the presumed dead.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ramesh and others injured in the disaster. Authorities are still investigating what caused the crash.