A SURVIVOR of the Dubai plane crash has been dubbed the “world’s luckiest man” after he won a $1 million lottery six days later.

The Telegraph reports that Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khada was a passenger on the Emirates plane that crashed and burst into flames on the runway of Dubai’s airport last Wednesday.

The 62-year-old grandfather, from India, saw his good fortune continue when ticket 845 was drawn in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire lottery at Concourse A at Dubai International Airport.

Mr Khadar, who works in a Dubai car dealership, bought the ticket in the airport on his way to India. It was on his return flight that he was seated on the plane that crash landed and caught fire.

Mr Khadar was just four months away from retiring.

“I have been working in Dubai for 37 years, and I have always felt like this is my country,” he told Gulf News. “I live a simple life, and now that it’s my time to retire, I feel like God gave me a second life when I survived the plane crash, and blessed me with this money to follow all this up by doing good things”.

Just to make the story even more heartwarming, Mr Khadar plans to move back to India and use the money to help children in need.

“I am blessed to have finally won with Dubai Duty Free and can’t wait to share the news with my family,” he said. “If you ask me about my plans, I obviously want to help the children in Kerala who are less fortunate than others and need some financial help and medical support

“I don’t want to give it to a charity or build a business, I want to go out and find people who really need help and give them money. I was poor, and I know what people go through,” he said.