Cypriot plane crashes in Greece

[cannedmoose]

Missing along with two others on the plane... it's horrible to say it but they may have literally shattered on contact and may never be found. Many from 9/11 were never found due to similar reasons.

[Alexandros Lordos]

[cannedmoose]

[brother]

This whole thing stinks to high heaven and will we ever find out the truth, i don't think so.

[cannedmoose]

Cyprus in air safety spotlight
By George Psyllides

ICAO audits ‘placed island in bottom 30 in the world’

CYPRUS ranked among the 30 most criticised countries in ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) audit programmes carried out in 111 countries between 1998 and 2004, according to a French Parliamentary report on airline safety.

The French report, published in July 2004, was the result of a fact-finding mission on airline safety carried out by French MP Odile Saugues; it received little attention until Le Monde picked up the story this week in the wake of the Helios and Venezuela air crashes last week.

The list of 30 countries was: Albania, Mali, Belize, Mongolia, Belarus, Mozambique, Botswana, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cambodia, Uganda, Cameroon, Palau (Pacific Ocean) Papua New Guinea, Cyprus, Croatia, Portugal, Ghana, Russia, Guyana, Samoa, Hungary, Senegal, Kenya, Togo, Laos, Tonga, FYROM, Vanuatu (Pacific Ocean).

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2005

Full story at:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=21513&archive=1

[Crash Test Dummy]

surprised Portugal are in there. Tunisia needs to be put in that list.

[cannedmoose]

[Yiannis]

[Dhavlos]

thats what i heard too, yiannis.

this whole Helios thing is very mysterious.... my uncle knows one of the pilots who train with helios or sumet, and he says they must have known about depressurization etc... ther is a whole catalogue of failures, something must be suspicious i think. Something happend in that plane, and i think we are never oing to kno.

Also, about the dissappearance of the pilots, i think they must have been sucked out of the plane or something? its really hard to try to understand

[brother]

If the pilots were sucked out of the plane how did the steward manage to get in there and try to call help, makes no sense.

[cannedmoose]

I can't remember where I read this, but yesterday I saw a quite convincing account of what may have occurred. The article said that the plane in question had been in for maintenance the day before, during which the engineers had disabled the auto-pressurisation switch. During the pre-flight check, this must have been missed, therefore the pressurisation system was left on manual at take-off and would have required the pilots to adjust the pressure and temperature manually as they climbed.

As a result, as they ascended, pressure would have gradually dropped inside the aircraft and would have made the pilots less responsive to their environment and ultimately to lose consciousness. Since the pilots do not have the same drop-down masks, it is entirely possible that they lost consciousness just as the passengers masks were dropping.

What isn't entirely explainable is why the cabin crew did not enter the cockpit at this time, and why the pilots did not respond to warning alarms which must have indicated dropping pressure. Nonetheless, it's one of the more convincing theories I've heard so far.

Still, it remains speculation until the results of the official inquiry emerge.

[cannedmoose]

[brother]

[cannedmoose]

No...

[magikthrill]