A Swedish third division soccer team says it booked on the doomed
Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps escaped death by
changing flights at the last minute.
The Dalkurd FF team from
Borlaenge, in central Sweden, was booked to fly home to Sweden on the
budget carrier on Tuesday after a trip to Catalonia.
The Airbus
A320, carrying 144 passengers and six crew from Barcelona to
Duesseldorf, crashed in mountainous terrain in southeastern France
killing all 150 on board.
But upon arrival at Barcelona airport,
the team decided the layover in Duesseldorf would be too long so they
re-booked themselves onto three other flights flying via Zurich and
Munich.
"To all those who have tried to contact us in the past few hours we
are home and we are fine. It was another plane. May they rest in peace,"
goalkeeper Frank Pettersson wrote on Twitter.
Sporting director Adil Kizil told daily Aftonbladet the team had a very close call.
"We were supposed to be on that plane," he said.
"There
were four planes that left around the same time and that flew north
over the Alps. Four planes and we had players on three of them. You can
say we were very, very lucky."
AAP
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