Tests showed that at least 26 people on the flight were still alive when it crashed.Īfter a cabin decompression occurred onboard a Learjet carrying golf pro Payne Stewart in 1999, all the travelers lost consciousness and the plane eventually crashed with no survivors. However, an airline spokesman insisted that the plane was airworthy when it took off. On Decemthe same aircraft made an emergency landing after failure of the ventilation system at 35,000 feet and 3 passengers were hospitalized. This malfunction can cause a steep drop in air temperature. It was also speculated that the air-supply system of the aircraft may have failed, causing a loss of air pressure within the cockpit. However, the chief coroner of Athens, Greece, said that tests showed none of the passengers or crew had carbon monoxide in their blood. There had been speculation that an electrical fire or some other cause could have flooded the cabin with carbon monoxide or another gas that would render the passengers unconscious. The emergency oxygen masks were also reported to have dropped. The Greek F-16 pilots saw at least one of the aircraft's pilots may have become unconscious before the crash, causing control of the plane to be lost. The F-16s accompanied the airliner until it crashed. That person, probably a man who experts say must have had flight training, then banked the plane away from Athens, lowering it to 2,000 feet and then climbing back up to 7,000 feet before the plane apparently ran out of fuel and crashed.
On Wednesday, state-run and private media, quoting anonymous defense ministry officials, said the two fighter pilots saw someone in the cockpit take control of the plane, which was flying in a gradually descending holding pattern apparently on autopilot. The pilots of the F-16s noted that one airliner pilot appeared to be unconscious and the other was not in the cockpit. Two Greek F-16 military aircraft were assigned to observe the plane. As the plane approached Athens, all communication abruptly ceased, and the plane never issued a mayday distress signal. This information however has been denied by the Director of Helios Airways. A few minutes later, the pilots alerted the station that the problem had been fixed and requested permission to ascend. Immediately after take-off, the pilots reported a problem with the air conditioning system of the aircraft and requested to stay at a low altitude. The plane was travelling from Larnaca, in the southeast of Cyprus (Greek:Kypros, Κύπρος) and scheduled to arrive in Prague after a stop in Athens. EEST) near Grammatiko, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Athens, while approaching the capital's airport. Sunday, AugFile photo of the crashed Helios Airways B 737 © /Elliot KefalasĪ Helios airliner ( Boeing 737, flight HCY 522) with 115 passengers and 6 crew onboard has crashed into a mountain at 09:04 UTC (12:04 p.m.
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