20 years ago The plane directed to Prague unexpectedly collapsed after all passengers and pilots lost consciousness. The investigation of the accident revealed one striking fact that caused the passengers and crews. . on board died all 121 people.
The shocking case took place in August 2005 on Helios Airways. Flight shortly after nine o’clock in the morning issued a journey from Larnaka to Cyprus to Prague with a short planned stopover in Athens. A few hours later, however, a tragic accident took place.
The cabin is the last time She heard shortly after the start when Pilot to land staff reported a warning about activation of the alarm take -off configuration and cooling failure Avionics (on board aircraft). Since then, no one has responded to radio calls, which caused panic at the ground headquarters. Air traffic management staff feared that the aircraft or terrorist act could have occurred, and therefore were summoned fighters that located the plane aimlessly circling over Athens.
Unsuccessful rescue
As they continued to browse the aircraft, They saw that all passengers sit unconscious and hang unused oxygen masks in front of them. The pilots of the fighters already knew they could not prevent the disaster because woken up only one on -board guide named Andreas Prodromou.
A qualified crew member who He desperately tried to direct the flight 522 to safety, had no experience in driving the aircraft Boeing 737-31s and could not change the direction of the machine. At that time another disaster came, with both engines failed within ten minutes. Pilots of fighters are so They could only watch the plane hit the slope near the village of Grammatko.
Later on the Internet also discovered a sound record that revealed the words of one of the pilots of the fighter. “Mayday, Mayday. We have a civilian plane crash. Mayday, Mayday,” the air traffic management staff said. “Athens, The civilian plane crashed to the top of the mountain“he added.
The investigation of the accident revealed that The tragic crash occurred due to the loss of pressure in the cabin. This caused Everyone on board felt the consequences of hypoxia, a condition in which tissues in the body do not have enough oxygen. Later, there was also the theory that the aircraft overpressure switch remained on manual settings, although it was supposed to be in the “automatic” position it could cause pressure reduction at the time the plane climbed to the sky.
Families of Victims in 2007 filed a lawsuit with Boeing that was later out of court settled. The Greek Court in 2008 even accused six former employees of Helios Airways of unintentional killingbut the case was finally rejected in 2011.
