( CNN ) -- `` Banchao ! Banchao ! '' Save me ! Save me ! A rescue worker could hear the screams of a passenger on Air India Flight IX-812 , but the plane was consumed with flames . Fire was leaping in every part of the Boeing jet that crashed early Saturday in southern India . The rescue worker heard things bursting in the extreme heat , he told CNN 's sister network , CNN-IBN . Then it was quiet , and he understood that no one else was alive . The Air India plane had flown in from Dubai , United Arab Emirates , carrying 160 passengers and six crew members . Among them were 19 children and four infants . Some people were returning home . An anxious young bride-to-be and a man on his way to perform last rites for his father were also on the flight . Others were migrant workers . Millions of Indians work as laborers in Persian Gulf states . Most perished , charred beyond recognition in the fiery wreckage . Only the aircraft 's tail was left intact , officials said . Rescuers scrambled to find survivors all day Saturday . Mostly they pulled bodies . The eight who survived recounted their harrowing tales for CNN-IBN . Ummerfarook Mohammed said the cabin quickly filled with smoke after the jet skidded off the runway and hit a boundary wall . The impact created a hole in the plane 's body , he said . He crawled out and ran for his life . Nearby villagers carted him to the hospital in a rickshaw . And then there were those who counted their blessings on Saturday for not having boarded their ill-fated flight in Dubai . Vasant Shetty 's friend had booked him on the Mangalore-bound plane , but he was too busy at work and decided not to take the flight . `` It 's all God 's grace . I missed the flight and survived , '' Shetty told the Press Trust of India news agency . `` I do n't know what to say about the ill-fated passengers who were killed , '' he said . `` I pray for them . ''
Rescue ##rs heard a woman 's screams . 19 children , 4 infants were onboard . They crawled out of a hole in ground , taken to hospital by villagers . ` ` It 's all God 's grace . I missed the flight and survived , '' man says .