last Sundays plane crash

city · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: last Sundays plane crash

I have heard really strange news re. this accident:

1. the men who reported to have received that text message from his cousin about people freezing has admitted that he was lying. He has been taken under arrest.
2. Helios offered the families of the victims 20.000 Euro per dead.

I'm wondering how some people think and behave. I mean how sick is it to give false reports just to appear in the media and how disrespectful is it to offfer money just one day after the incident..........???

cannedmoose · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:07 am Post subject:

The money is the standard insurance payment, designed to cover funeral and other immediate costs, so it's normal for this to be announced and released quickly.

As for the 'fake text message', if this guy is lying, they should shut him away in an asylum for a few months... I don't think he'd do it again.

brother · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

Watching my fellow cypriots on t.v and the pain they are going trough makes me really angry at this guys false statements, his words put in the head of relatives that they suffered before dying.

city · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:15 am Post subject:

thebrix · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject:

city · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

Thanks for the explanation Alastair.
I think the Warsaw convention is mentioned in most travel documents (like on the back of some tickets) explaining some rules and responsibilities.
Do I recall this correctly?

thebrix · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

Dhavlos · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

more news.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4172740.stm

cannedmoose · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

Still a bit strange that a flight attendant could have been wrestling with the controls as it dropped... with the loss of pressure and freezing temperatures I would have thought everyone would have been unconscious... a lot of things don't add up, we'll just have to wait for the enquiry to announce its findings... Sad

magikthrill · Mukhtar/is Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 630 Location: NYC

something tells me we're never going to really find out what happened...

cannedmoose · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

brother · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

I have to agree with that statement. Crying or Very sad

erolz · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject:

Bit more info here

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=21485&archive=1

cannedmoose · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Poor guy, if he tried to save the plane, he's a hero...

They ID'd my wife's second cousin yesterday via DNA so she was upset all over again. Still waiting for IDs on his wife and 2 kids Sad

brother · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject:

A very stressful time at the moosey household, i hope Mrs.Moose will be o.k and if there is anything i can do to help my friend please, please, please do ask.