TWO lucky men escaped death in the doomed Ethiopian plane after missing their flight, which was bound for Kenya.

Dubai resident Ahmad Khalid missed his connecting flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi due to a delay of his flight from Dubai to Ethiopia.

Khalid’s father learned that the plane crashed while waiting for him at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Khalid reunited with his father in Kenya later Sunday.

Another man, from Greece, said he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed killing all on board, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight.

“I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time,” Antonis Mavropoulos said in a Facebook post entitled “My lucky day” in which he includes a photo of his ticket.

Mavropoulos, president of the International Solid Waste Association, a non-profit organization, was travelling to Nairobi to attend the annual assembly of the U.N. Environment Program, according to Athens News Agency.

He was supposed to board the plane but he reached the departure gate just two minutes after it was closed.

He booked a later flight but was then prevented from boarding by airport staff.

“They 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’t board the ET 302 flight that was lost,” Mavropoulos said in his post in which he admits being in shock.

The airport authorities explained that they wanted to question him because he was the only passenger booked onto the doomed flight who wasn’t on board.

(SD-Agencies)