A would-be passenger of EgyptAir flight MS804 said he was happy to be “lucky” enough to not board the flight.
Mounir Namour had purchased a ticket for the deadly flight, but decided to stay an extra day in Paris and switched flights at the last minute, after having already arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
“I said to myself, I’m really lucky. Honestly I’m really lucky,” Namour told NBC. “It was really difficult when I saw the news flash. I had knots in my stomach and I have had it ever since then.”
As many as 66 people are believed to be dead as a result of the crash of the EgyptAir flight, which disappeared off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
The flight had been on its normal course when it suddenly vanished from the skies without sending a distress signal.
Egyptian authorities believe that the likely cause of the crash was terrorism rather than an engine problem, but nothing can be said with certainty until the black boxes in the airplane are recovered.
