The story of the two men who did not take the flight from Ethiopia, where there were 157 dead

March 11, 2019

The accident occurred six minutes after the departure of the plane from the capital, Addis Ababa. One of them posted a post on his Facebook, titled "My lucky day".

Fate wanted these two people not to fly ET302 from Ethiopian Airlines, which it crashed just six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.

This international flight was headed for Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and in the beginning, the two men complained of not letting it go on time: who saved their lives.

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Antonis Mavropoulos He could not get on the plane because he arrived with two minutes late at the boarding gate: "I was angry because no one helped me to get to the door at the hour. The airport staff, courteous, put me on the next flight, who left at 11:20, apologized for the inconvenience and took me to a nice room during the three hours of waiting. "

That's when he posted an article on Facebook called "My lucky day", where he also stated that he was questioned by the police because he was the only pbadenger who had a reservation and had not taken the plane: "The policeman told me not to protest and pray to God"he finished.

The other person was Ahmed Khalid, A Dubai resident who missed the flight that crashed because of a delay in one of the connectionshe was therefore moved to a subsequent flight to Nairobi.

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"We all asked the cabin crew what was going on, but no one said anything," he told the newspaper. The National. In Nairobi, his father was waiting for him, who at first thought that his son was going through a tragedy.

And he declared: "I was shocked, but shortly thereafter, my son contacted me and told me that he was still in Ethiopia and that he was n & # 39; had not taken the plane. "