The passenger who, for two minutes, did not board the Boeing of Ethiopian Airlines – 03/12/2019

On Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 aboard a Boeing 737 Max-8 157 people died last Sunday. In fact, for a few seconds, there were 158 deaths. The Greek Antonis Mavropoulos has just said Facebook his emotional story: "My lucky day."

As Mavropoulos explains, he was not in the plane is due to chance or a series of coincidences. In fact, since Sunday, he can not help thinking about when he saw the last pbadengers enter the tunnel that led them to the Boeing.

The pbadenger who has never boarded shared an image of his boarding pbad with a publication in Facebook under the title of "My Lucky Day". In the details the events that led to missing flight 302.

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The unhealthy plane bound for Nairobi took off at 8:38 am from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport and he lost contact six minutes later, as explained in an Ethiopian Airlines report. On board the Boeing 737 MAX 8 There were 149 pbadengers and eight crew members.

Mavropoulos, who lives in Greece and runs a recycling company, was traveling to Nairobi for a conference on the environment and had a connecting flight to Addis Ababa. However, when his first flight arrived in Ethiopia, the man said that I had less than 30 minutes to arrive at the boarding gate the next connection of your trip. As it counts in Facebook: "When I arrived, the door had just closed and Ithe last pbadengers of the tunnel entering the plane. I shouted for them to let me in, but they did not let me do it. "

Then There was a heated discussion with the ground staff to try to get on the plane. for what he understood "a few minutes late". Mavropoulos was very angry, but airport employees apologized for the inconvenience and They helped book a flight that departed later that same morning.

After about three hours of waiting, the man says he was getting ready for the next flight when two security guards arrested him and told him that he could not board for security reasons. Mavropoulos is still complaining, he did not understand what was happening: "I complained and the guards took me to their supervisor, who politely told me not to." not protest and that I had to thank God because I was the only pbadenger not to board the flight 302, which was missing. . At first I thought he was lying, but his attitude left no doubt. "

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The airport security personnel made the man wait before checking who he was and why he had not finally taken the plane. In the meantime, he found the news of Flight 302 and He immediately called his family to tell them that he was not in the plane"At that time, I collapsed because I realized how lucky I am, I lost the flight because of the short time between matches and the fact that I only had hand luggage. I did not check my bag because I knew that the gap between the connecting flights was narrow. If I had checked my suitcase, they would have waited for me. "

Mavropoulos, still in Nairobi, said that he had not slept at night because "it is difficult to understand exactly what happened". That's why he says that he wanted to share his experience in Facebook: "I publish this because I want to tell everyone that the invisible threads of luck, the unforeseen circumstances, weave the web in which our life is trapped. There are millions of tiny wires that we never feel normally, but if we break the whole network, it breaks instantly. "

By the way, Mavropoulos said goodbye in his emotional message by winking at the group. Jethro Tull: "Maybe it's not too old for rock and roll, and too young to die."

Sources: Gizmodo, CNN, NBC, Facebook.

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