By CHIMAOBI UCHENDU
Fate! Nothing but fate that saved Greek man Antonis Mavropoulos from being perished in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline that crashed on Sunday morning. He was to board the plane but was stopped after arriving the gate two minutes late.
He was livid and furious when airline staff wouldn’t let him board the Ethiopian Airlines, which crashed just minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing everyone on board.
Lucky Mavropoulus has narrated how he was saved from the cold hands of death and the jet disaster because he was running just two minutes late – and demanded to be let on board.
Antonis Mavropoulos would have been the 150th passenger on board the doomed jet – which crashed and killed all 157 on board, including seven Britons – but he ended up missing flight ET302.
The dad had spent about 40 minutes looking for a suitcase that was missing after an earlier leg of his journey.
In a facebook post entitled “My lucky day”, Mr Mavropoulos said he was “mad” and “screaming” after no-one helped him reach the departure gate before the plane’s door closed.
But he soon learned that the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane had crashed just minutes after taking off from the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the police took him in for questioning.
