The airliner carrying 121 people crashed north of Athens on Sunday after the pilot and a passenger reported cabin pressure problems moments before the plane was due to land. Firemen try to extinguish a fire at the crash site of a Cypriot airliner at Grammatiko village some 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Athens, August 14, 2005. Greek and Cypriot authorities often list surnames before given names, and Hans-Juergen would likely be the pilot’s first name. It was unclear why there was a discrepancy in his age.
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Cypriot authorities identified him as Marten Hans Jurgen, 50, from Berlin.Ī spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with German practice, identified one of the pilots as a 58-year-old German but would not give his full name. Searchers were still looking for three bodies, including the plane’s German pilot, fire officials said. A Cypriot transport official had said Sunday the passengers and crew may have been dead before the plane crashed. The plane might have run out of fuel after flying for nearly three hours on autopilot, air force officials said, asking not to be named in line with Greek practice.Īfter the crash, authorities said it appeared to have been caused by a technical failure - resulting in high-altitude decompression. The fighter jet pilots also saw two people possibly trying to take control of the plane it was unclear if they were crew members or passengers. The pilot did not appear to be in the cockpit, and oxygen masks were seen dangling in the cabin. The pilots of two Greek air force F-16 fighter planes scrambled to intercept the plane after it lost contact with air traffic control shortly after entering Greek airspace said they saw the co-pilot slumped over the controls. Investigators also were trying to determine why the pilot was not in his seat shortly before the crash. documents and other evidence which could be useful for the investigation into possible criminal acts,” Cyprus’ deputy presidential spokesman Marios Karoyian said. In Cyprus, police raided the offices of Helios Airways in the coastal city of Larnaca, near the international airport.Ī search warrant was issued “to secure. “The only fortunate event in the investigation is that we have the flight data recorder,” Tsolakis said, adding that the box would be flown to Paris on Wednesday for decoding. AFP PHOTO/Louisa Gouliamaki (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP Firemen carry a body covered in a sheet from the site of a Helios airways flight carrying 115 passangers and 6 crew which crashed into mountains near Grammatiko some 45 km from Athens, 14 August 2005. The device’s internal components were ejected from the container when the plane crashed on Sunday, said Akrivos Tsolakis, the head of the Greek airline safety committee. They said the plane's German pilot was not in the cockpit.Įarlier Tuesday, officials said they had found only the exterior container of the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed plane, hampering investigative efforts into the accident’s cause. Pilots of two Greek F-16 fighter jets that intercepted the plane after it lost contact with Greek air traffic controllers had reported seeing the co-pilot slumped over the controls in the cockpit, apparently unconscious, shortly before the plane crashed. Co-pilot was alive The autopsy on the body of the co-pilot shows he was alive when the plane went down north of Athens, Athens' chief coroner said Tuesday.įillipos Koutsaftis told The Associated Press that co-pilot Pambos Haralambous was alive when the Helios Airways plane crashed Sunday.
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