quote: Cypriot passenger plane with 121 people on board crashed Sunday just north of the Greek capital, after being shadowed for 43 helpless minutes by fighters reporting that the co-pilot was slumped over the controls and that there was no sign of the pilot.
quote: There were no survivors in what officials called Greece's worst airline accident. Helios airline officials refused to release the passenger list but said 48 of the passengers were "youth travelers"
[ August 14, 2005, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: Jaiden ]
Posted by Chungwa (Member # 6421) on :
Sheesh, what the heck happened?
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Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
They don't know for sure, however different sources have reported the following:
quote: State-run news media reported that a malfunction in the aircraft's oxygen system might have precipitated the crash and that the cabin might have rapidly lost pressure
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Posted by dh (Member # 6929) on :
Woah.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Oh no!
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Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Oh that sucks. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
So does this mean that everyone was passed out before impact? So hopefully they didn't feel impact?
FG
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I wonder if Lissa knew any of those people.
Posted by Nitasmile (Member # 8275) on :
I guess you all know by now that the autopsy report showed that 6 people were alive when the plane crashed. I was touched by the message one of the victims sent to his cousin ("we are frozen, farewell cousin", something like that anyway. And it is sad that so many children were killed.
Posted by LordKaosnix (Member # 8458) on :
quote: Cypriot passenger plane with 121 people on board crashed Sunday just north of the Greek capital, after being shadowed for 43 helpless minutes by fighters reporting that the co-pilot was slumped over the controls and that there was no sign of the pilot.
quote: There were no survivors in what officials called Greece's worst airline accident. Helios airline officials refused to release the passenger list but said 48 of the passengers were "youth travelers"
I was just watching MSNBC just now at 4:45AM and another one just fell around Venezuala. Atleast 150 people are dead.
Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
That text message was a hoax, I'm afraid.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
That was a hoax, really? What is wrong with people, that's so creepy.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Yeah - the guy that reported to media that he got a "text message from his cousin" was arrested -- because there was no such message, and he didn't have a cousin on that flight.
People are just weird.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Does the hull of the plane block signals entirely or is it a matter of altitudes? I'm wondering if it's possible to cache messages while at 30K and then when you get low enough for the towers to pick you back up, the messages would finally transmit.
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