A man who was set ablaze and later wrestled to the ground by police in a failed terrorist attack on Scotland’s busiest airport is unlikely to survive his severe burns, a doctor who treated him said Tuesday.

Kafeel Ahmed, 27, allegedly crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the Glasgow airport on June 30, a day after police found two unexploded car bombs in central London.

“The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to survive,” a member of the medical team that treated him at the Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow said on condition of anonymity because details about patients are not to be made public.

“He has third-degree burns over most of his torso and limbs. It is beyond repair and because he has lost so much skin, he is now vulnerable to infection and won’t be able to fight it,” the doctor said.

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