A steward who was not on board the ill-fated Russian plane when it crashed despite being scheduled on the roster has said he had resigned a week earlier because his dad had seen a vision.
Flight attendant Oleg Ermakov had been scheduled to fly on board the doomed Russian Airbus, carrying Russian holiday-makers home from the Red Sea, which crashed with the loss of 224 lives in a remote part of the Sinai desert.
Oleg said that he had handed his resignation in a week earlier with immediate effect because his father had begged him to.
His managers had not even had time to take him off the flight roster, and he was still listed as being on board at company headquarters.
He said: “It’s incredible that I was not on board the plane, I knew every one of the crew, and I knew the plane and had flown the route many times. “I was down on the flight plan to be there for 31 October but, because I’d resigned, I missed it. “I had been thinking of giving up the job anyway but then a week before I got a call from my dad who told me he had a bad dream, he was clearly very upset and he told me ‘Oleg, resign’.”
The man said that he had had the dream the week before and was absolutely insistent that his son give up the job.
The flight attendant said he had mixed feelings about the tragedy because although he was glad that he had survived, he said he was personal friends with many of his former colleagues who had lost their lives.
He said that they had spent a lot of private time together as well as they often had to stay at end destinations while waiting for return flights. He added: “I knew the pilots as well. They were good guys, professional pilots, former military pilots, they had worked many years in civil aviation. There is no doubting their expertise.”
He added that the tragedy would not stop him flying, and he was even thinking of retraining as a pilot despite what had happened.
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