Dubai: A 62-year-old Indian, Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, from Kerala, who was on board the Emirates plane that crash-landed and burst into flames here, could well be the luckiest man alive. He has won a million dollars in lottery, just six days after surviving the accident.

The Dubai expatriate struck gold yesterday when his lucky ticket number 0845 was drawn in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire at Dubai International Airport, winning him $1 million (Dirham 3.67 million). Khadar had purchased the ticket on Eid on his way for a vacation with his family in Thiruvananthapuram.