XPGoD Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ATHENS ? A Cypriot airliner carrying 115 passengers and six crewmembers, crashed north of Athens (search) on Sunday, the defense ministry and fire department said. The Helios Airways (search) flight crashed at about 12:20 p.m. near the coastal town of Kalamos, just north of the Greek capitalWitnesses told Athens radio station they saw the plane, which was being followed by fighter jets, go down.b> Helios Airways in a privately owned Cypriot airline. Source FOXNews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestrobber Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Sounds like you're angling for a conspiracy theory here. :alien: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPGoD Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Sounds like you're angling for a conspiracy theory here. :alien: 586374927[/snapback] No, but explain one reason why in anyway would there be fighter jets... now if the fighters turn into cessna's... then maybe i won't look in that direction eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nestrobber Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Can't think of a reason other than that witnesses may have (mistakenly) identified say a passing jet tanker refueling the jets in midflight - (aren't there USAF bases in the Med ?). I would have thought that it'd be difficult to mistake a cessna for a jet fighter. Anyways, I'll watch this space. vaya con dios, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPGoD Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Can't think of a reason other than that witnesses may have (mistakenly) identified say a passing jet tanker refueling the jets in midflight - (aren't there USAF bases in the Med ?). I would have thought that it'd be difficult to mistake a cessna for a jet fighter. Anyways, I'll watch this space. vaya con dios, dude. 586374954[/snapback] And the plot thickens... Authorities sent two Greek F-16 jets to escort the plane after the control tower at Athens international airport lost contact with the pilots, state media reported.One of the F-16 pilots reported he could not see the captain in the cockpit and that the co-pilot appeared to be slumped in his seat, a Greek Defense Ministry official told Reuters. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowcra Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 :( not good. Just saw this on sky news :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Von_Beard Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 :no: worlds goin to S**t it really is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NullPointerException Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Reports from tv say that gas from the mailfunctioning airconditioning inside the aircraft probably killed most of the passangers before the plain crashed. That is why they send the jet fighters to escort the plain after they lost contact with the pilots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premgenius Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 conspiracy theory i think, 4th crash in the last 2months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaf Spacker Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 A Cypriot passenger plane carrying at least 121 people has crashed near Athens moments after losing radio contact with air traffic control. Greek F-16 fighter jets scrambled to locate the plane reported seeing one pilot slumped in his seat, but could not see the plane's second pilot. The Helios Airways plane, travelling from Larnaca, Cyprus, crashed in hills just north of the Greek capital. A rescue helicopter dispatched to the site has not reported any survivors. The head of air traffic control at Athens airport, Iannis Pantazaratos, told AFP they had no idea who was flying the plane. "The airport lost all contact with the plane which should have landed in the late morning, and two air force planes sent up in reconnaissance found it flying above the Euboea peninsula, but they saw the pilots doubled up in the cabin," he said. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis cut short a holiday on the island of Tinos to return to Athens. Police and military helicopters were sent to the scene, with dozens of ambulances also reportedly on their way. One eyewitness, Dimitris Karezas, told the Reuters news agency he saw the plane being followed by fighter jets. "Two, three minutes later I heard a big bang and ever since I've started looking for it, but I have not found anything yet," he said. Helios Airways was founded in 1999 as Cyprus' first independent airline. It operates a fleet of Boeing 737 jets between Cyprus and London, Athens, Sofia, Dublin and Strasbourg in France. BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCAP Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I just saw it on the news. It was really bad. My condolences go out to the families and relatives of the victims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Plane_with_121...ashes_in_Greece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golazo Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 so it was terrorists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoXY Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 so it was terrorists? 586375205[/snapback] read all the post before posting, it's apperently a gas leak that killed everyone before the plain even crashed.. why does everything have to be terroists these days?..:no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imtoomuch Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 No, but explain one reason why in anyway would there be fighter jets... 586374935[/snapback] I swear that in the majority of plane crashes at least one lunatic claims they saw it being chased by fighter jets or being hit by a missle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golazo Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 read all the post before posting, i did don't make assumptions kyuubi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NullPointerException Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Latest news on the crash say that the plain already had some mechanical/other problems known to the airline complany before the takeoff. I am not sure this is correct though. I don't think it is terrorist attack, the plain crashed in the middle of no-where... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaf Spacker Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I swear that in the majority of plane crashes at least one lunatic claims they saw it being chased by fighter jets or being hit by a missle. 586375217[/snapback] Its been confirmed that fighter jets were involved in looking for the jet and/or escorting it up until it crashed. "Greek F-16 fighter jets had been scrambled to locate the Helios Airways plane, heading from Larnaca, Cyprus to the Czech capital, Prague." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 They all froze to death, well the pilots did, because of a drop in cabin temp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Sad: A passenger may have sent a text message to his cousin. "The pilot has turned blue," reports quoted the message as saying. "Cousin farewell we're freezing." :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 The cabin depressuirised, pretty much dooming the plane. Not to mention it would have been around -20c where they were cruising so if the cabin did depresurise - which would have killed many people fast, the cold would have got to them after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted August 14, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 14, 2005 No, but explain one reason why in anyway would there be fighter jets... now if the fighters turn into cessna's... then maybe i won't look in that direction eh? 586374935[/snapback] For a number of reasons. First, they have to take precautions, in today's modern world, once a plane stops responding. Also, once they got there, they probably had to watch for where it headed. If there was a chance of it crashing onto a populated area, they would have had to shoot it down. Either way, it wasn't terrorism, but a freak tragedy that really can not be described by words. My condolences go out to the familes affected and to the souls of the faithfully departed. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.derosa Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ATHENS ? A Cypriot airliner carrying 115 passengers and six crewmembers, crashed north of Athens (search) on Sunday, the defense ministry and fire department said. The Helios Airways (search) flight crashed at about 12:20 p.m. near the coastal town of Kalamos, just north of the Greek capitalWitnesses told Athens radio station they saw the plane, which was being followed by fighter jets, go down.b> Helios Airways in a privately owned Cypriot airline. Source FOXNews 586374900[/snapback] its normal policy for governments that when an airliner is lost contact with, after repeated attempts to regain communication they send fighter jets to investigate why must people look for conspiracy in everything:rolleyes:s: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha2004 Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 The cabin depressuirised, pretty much dooming the plane. Not to mention it would have been around -20c where they were cruising so if the cabin did depresurise - which would have killed many people fast, the cold would have got to them after. 586376711[/snapback] even with a depressurization, nobody would be likely to die (as stated by a greek retired pilot)...and im guessing that perhaps when the plane depressurized, the cooling system went kaputz... but there are a lot of things that could have happened...we will probably never know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yiakoumis Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 i live in cyprus and its all over tv all day long thankfully i dont know anyone on that flight my condolences to all families affected just want to note that, apparently, the F16 jet pilots saw another man in the cockpit, wearing a gas mask before the plane went down news reporters say that he could have been one of the few passengers awake, who tried to navigate the plane any idea how difficult is for a newbie to actually navigate a plane to safety with/without the help of control tower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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