Man who missed theft of Ethiopian airlines who crashed shares his experience
"The invisible discussions of luck ... knit the web whose life is taken."
This week, the flight Ethiopian Airlines 302 crashed while on the road to Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, killing the 157 people on board.Antonis Mavropoulos, who lives in Greece and directs a recycling business, had to be on board the flight, but failed it precisely because of a narrow connection. He shared his story and a picture of his boarding pass in a Facebook post that became massively viral.
At the time, Mavropoulos went to Nairobi for a conference on the environment and arrived at Addis Adaba, the capital of Ethiopia, with less than 30 minutes to make known his connection.flight. He did it at the door only two minutes after cutting cut for boarding and was denied entry into the plane.
"When I arrived, boarding was closed and looked at the last passengers of the tunnel. I shouted to put me in, but they did not allow it," he wrote.
The flight lost contact six minutes after takeoff.
Mavropoulos said he was booked on a flight that left three hours later, but when the time arrived on board, he was told that he could not do it for security reasons. He started complaining when a security staff member "told me slowly not to protest and say thank you to God because I am the only passenger who did not enter the flight."
As he waited for them to check his identity, he heard the news of the flight and immediately called his family to let them know that he was not on the plane.
"At that time, I collapsed because I realized exactly how lucky I am," he wrote.
He added that the other thing that saved him was the fact that he was flying only hand luggage because he believes that if his luggage had been on board, they would have had the plane. He also said he wrote the Facebook post as a way to manage his own shock and to remind everyone "that the invisible discussions of luck - the unplanned circumstances - knitting of the band from which our life is taken . There are millions of small sons who usually do not feel - but if we break that all the Web unfold instantly. "And if you need advice on reflection, know yourself thatThat's what you should do when you feel that "life is too difficult".
