{"id":21736,"date":"2019-03-12T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21736"},"modified":"2019-03-12T07:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T07:01:41","slug":"just-a-few-seconds-saved-me-from-ethiopian-plane-crash-passanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21736","title":{"rendered":"Just a Few Seconds Saved me from Ethiopian Plane Crash &#8211; Passanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>A Greek man, Antonis Mavropoulos, escaped Sunday\u2019s plane crash involving an Ethiopian Airline flight, YEN.com.gh has gathered because he came late by a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Narrating what happened in a Facebook post titled my My Lucky Day, Mavropoulos stated that he had struggled to get to the plane but reached there seconds late and was angered as he saw the gate being closed on him.<\/p>\n<p>Left with no choice, the \u2018mad\u2019 Greek man booked a later flight but before he could join that plane, airport staff prevented him from boarding and he was taken to the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey 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\u2019t board the ET 302 flight that was lost,\u201d Mavropoulos explained in his post.<\/p>\n<p>The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn\u2019t on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they couldn\u2019t let me go before cross-checking my identity, the reason I hadn\u2019t boarded the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As earlier reported by YEN.com.gh, an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members from Addis Ababa crashed on its way to Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement said the plane crashed around 08:44 local time on Sunday, March 10, 2019, after taking off at the Bole International Airport six minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Initially, information on survivors or casualties had been scanty but later reports suggested that all the 157 people on board the plane perished in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Mavropoulos was supposed to be the 150th passenger but he arrived two minutes late for the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organisation, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the UN Environment Programme, a report YEN.com.gh sighted on Nation.co.ke indicated.<span class=\"ctaText\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People holding passports from more than 30 countries were on board including a number of UN workers. <strong>(<\/strong>yen.com.gh)<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18231&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek man, Antonis Mavropoulos, escaped Sunday\u2019s plane crash involving an Ethiopian Airline flight, YEN.com.gh has gathered because he came late by a few seconds. 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