March 11, 2019, 7:43 PM GMT By Associated PressATHENS, Greece — A Greek man who narrowly missed the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed Sunday said he had argued with ground staff in Addis Ababa to try to get on the plane after reaching the gate minutes too late. "I saw the last passengers going through, but the gate had already closed. But they were very kind and placed me on another flight," Antonis Mavropoulos told Greece's private Skai Television, speaking via Skype from Nairobi. On the other hand, I'm also very upset — I'm shattered — for those who were lost," he said in the interview Monday. The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet occurred shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.

Source: Ethiopian News March 11, 2019 19:43 UTC