Greek passenger stopped at gate from boarding Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed Sunday. 'I'm slowly coming to terms with what happened and how close it came. On the other hand, I'm also very upset — I'm shattered — for those who were lost.'
said he had argued with ground staff in Addis Ababa to try to get on the plane after reaching the gate minutes too late.
Mavropoulos, who runs a recycling company and lives in Athens, was traveling to Kenya to attend an environmental conference and changed planes in Addis Ababa."I'm slowly coming to terms with what happened and how close it came. On the other hand, I'm also very upset — I'm shattered — for those who were lost," he said in the interview Monday."To be honest, I didn't get much sleep last night.
In a post on Facebook, Mavropoulos said he only became aware of the crash while preparing to check in for the later flight when he was again stopped by airport staff.
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