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Ethiopian plane crash: Flight cancellation claimed my mother’s life

Mama Sahra Hasan, one of the victims of Sunday's Ethiopian plane crash.

Mama Sahra Hasan, 59, could be alive today had it not been for an unprecedented flight cancellation last Saturday in Egypt.

She and her son Nasrudin Abdikadir boarded their plane in Germany, with a scheduled stopover in Cairo before their onward connection to Nairobi. Reasons for the cancellation have not been shared, even though that would not mean much for now.

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