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ETHIOPIA AIRLINES CRASH: I missed the flight by 2 minutes! Greek passenger tells of how he survived plane tragedy

MAURICE MUHWEZI | PML Daily Writer /Social Media EditorbyMAURICE MUHWEZI | PML Daily Writer /Social Media Editor
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President of the International Solid Waste Association, Antonis Mavropoulos, survived the plane crash; arrived two minutes late at the departure gate (AGENCIES PHOTO)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A Greek man said on Sunday he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed killing all on board, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight.

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed on March 10 morning en route from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines revealed (AGENCIES PHOTO)

“I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time,” Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled “My lucky day” in which he includes a photo of his ticket.

Mavropoulos, President of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organization, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, according to Athens News Agency.

He was supposed to board the plane, but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed.

President of the International Solid Waste Association, Antonis Mavropoulos’s plane ticket (COURTESY PHOTO)

He booked a later flight but was then prevented from boarding by airport staff.

“They led me to the police station of the airport. The officer told me not to protest but to pray to God because I was the only passenger that didn’t board the ET 302 flight that was lost,” Mavropoulos said in his post in which he admits being in shock.

A relative reacts as he leaves the information centre following the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya March 10.(COURTESY PHOTO)

The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn’t on board.

“They said they couldn’t let me go before cross-checking my identity, the reason I hadn’t boarded the plane and so forth.”

A Kenyan woman is comforted by a Red Cross worker after getting information about her loved ones that were on board the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya, March 10 (AGENCIES PHOTO)

The Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 crashed just minutes after an early-morning takeoff Sunday from Addis Ababa.

People holding passports from more than 35 countries were on board including several UN workers.

State-owned Ethiopian Airline had taken delivery of the Boeing 737-800 MAX plane on November 15.

There were no survivors after Lion Air plane crashed into the sea off Jakarta with 189 people on board (AGENCIES PHOTO)

Similar Plane in the tragic Jakarta Plane crash 

It was of the same type as a plane that crashed in October 2018 after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia killing all 189 people on board.

The Boeing 737, owned by the low-cost airline Lion Air, went down after taking off from the capital Jakarta due to arrive at Depati Amir airport in Pangkal Pinang an hour later but 13 minutes into the flight, authorities lost contact with 189 people on board.

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