"When I arrived, boarding had closed and I saw the last passengers in the tunnel going in [to the airplane]," he wrote in his now-viral Facebook post. A man says he narrowly missed the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed en route to Nairobi on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board, because of a series of coincidences. Mavropoulos told Skai TV he was annoyed, but that airport employees apologized for the inconvenience and were helpful in booking him on a flight that departed later in the morning. Airport security staffers had Mavropoulos wait while they verified who he was and why he didn't board the flight, he wrote. If I had checked the bag in, they would have waited for me," he told Skai TV.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2019 21:18 UTC