8/28/2023 0 Comments Helios airways flight 522 bodiesIt's not known whether they were crew members or passengers. "At a later stage, the F-16s saw two individuals in the cockpit seemingly trying to regain control of the airplane. "The situation was characterized 'renegade,' meaning the aircraft was not under the control of the pilots," Roussopoulos told reporters. They said the pilot wasn't in the cockpit. "Unfortunately, it appeared that the pilot was already dead as was, possibly, everyone else on the plane."Ī Greek government spokesman, Theodoros Roussopoulos, said the F-16 pilots met the plane at 34,000 feet and could see the co-pilot slumped over the controls. "When a pilot has no communication with the control tower, the procedure dictates that other planes must accompany and help the plane land," said Cyprus Transport Minister Haris Thrasou. Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with them minutes after the plane entered Greek air space at 10:30 a.m. The two pilots reported problems with the air-conditioning system about a half-hour after the plane left Larnaca at 9 a.m. People spotted in cockpit, trying to control plane "There apparently was a lack of oxygen, which is usually the case when the cabin is depressurized," said Akrivos Tsolakis, the head of the Greek airline safety committee. When news of the crash broke at the airport in Larnaca, some family members of the victims mobbed the airline counters, shouting "murderers" and "you deserve lynching," according to the Associated Press.Īuthorities quickly ruled out terrorism and said that a technical problem appeared to have caused the plane to decompress at about 35,000 feet â nearly 11,000 metres. It was flying from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic and was minutes away from a scheduled stopover in Athens when it crashed 40 kilometres north of the capital, at 12:05 p.m. The plane was carrying 115 passengers â more than a third of them children  and six crew members. Sotiris Voutas told Greek television the note said: "The pilot has turned blue. More than an hour before Helios Airways flight ZU522 slammed into a mountain north of Athens on Sunday, crew in two air force jets said they could see one of the Boeing 737's pilots slumped over the controls amid dangling oxygen masks.Īn Athens man said he got a cellphone text message minutes before the crash from a relative who was a passenger on the plane. The 121 people aboard a Cypriot airliner were likely already dead or unconscious long before it crashed after apparently losing cabin pressure or oxygen 10 kilometres above the earth, reports suggest.
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