Posted on 08/22/2005 4:45:33 PM PDT by nuconvert
Cypriot Pilot Cried 'Mayday!' Two Seconds Before Crash
Monday, August 22, 2005
ATHENS, Greece — The last man conscious in the cockpit of a doomed Cypriot airliner (search) made a desperate call for help — "Mayday! Mayday!" — two seconds before the plane carrying 121 people smashed into a mountain near Athens.
The man, apparently a flight attendant with pilot training, twice issued distress calls in the final 10 minutes of Helios Airways Flight 522 (search), chief investigator Akrivos Tsolakis told The Associated Press on Monday.
"The second time was a couple of seconds before the crash," Tsolakis said, adding the man had "a very weak tone of voice."
Earlier Monday, Tsolakis issued a preliminary report on the Aug. 14 crash, which killed all 115 passengers and six crew, that said the Boeing 737-300 lost cabin pressure and eventually ran out of fuel.
The report was the most comprehensive statement the government has released on the investigation since the crash. It came after pressure from the media and the airline industry for Greece and Cyprus to start answering questions about what caused the accident.
Still, it remained unclear what caused the loss of cabin pressure. Greek investigators, aided by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, are continuing to probe the crash, the deadliest airline disaster for Greece and Cyprus and considered one of the most baffling in aviation history.
Tsolakis presented his initial findings following analysis of flight recorders and autopsies on all 118 bodies — many still unidentified — recovered from the site. Three bodies have not been found, including that of the plane's pilot, a German.
"The crash is like an explosion and the pilot's body may not necessarily have ended up close to the cockpit," Tsolakis told state-run NET television. "He may be one of the [recovered]
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I heard the black box tape was missing. True?
Don't know
They said the black box was in bad shape, maybe useless.
There is so much wrong with all of this.
"The plane crashed in Greece after circling for more than an hour in a holding pattern above the Aegean Sea island of Kea (search), southeast of Athens International Airport.
"There are indications of technical problems in the pressurization system... There is proof that the engines of the plane stopped working because the fuel supply was exhausted, and that this was the final cause of the crash," the two-page report said.
I still smell the stink of IslamoPukes.
"Cypriot Passengers All Died on Impact"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166345,00.html
Aegean Sea island of Kea...
Hey that rhymes!
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Cypriot Pilot Cried 'Mayday!' Two Seconds Before Crash, ncountylee wrote:
"I still smell the stink of IslamoPukes."
But if they did it, why aren't they claiming responsibility and bragging about it? There's no point in doing terrorism and then keeping it a secret! (Heck, I'm surprised no group has claimed this one anyway.)
asking Greece and Cyprus to agree on something......welll
I heard that the black box was recovered but that the cockpit voice recorder was damaged beyond the capability of getting any info off of it. With this sound bite it makes me wonder what really was or wasn't damaged.
all bodies except for three have been recoverd, one of the three is the head pilot who is of german origin, as of sunday afternoon
"Nothing to see here, move along.."
ATHENS (Reuters) - Most bodies recovered from a crashed Cyprus airliner were "frozen solid", including some whose skin was charred by the plane's fiery crash, a top Greek Defence Ministry source said on Monday.
On Sunday, a Helios Airways Boeing 737 flying from Larnaca to Athens crashed into a mountain in Greece, killing all 121 aboard. Preliminary investigations suggested the disaster was caused by a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure and oxygen supply.
"Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the source, who has access to the investigation, told Reuters.
etc.............
Noone claimed responsibility for 911 if I remember correctly.
Time to pop in the Goldfinger DVD.
it was the Air attendent not the pilot
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