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Helios Airways was established on 23 September 1998, formed by the owners of TEA (Cyprus), a Cypriot offshore air operator specialising in Boeing 737 wet leases worldwide, and was the first independent, privately owned airline in Cyprus.
Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece.Shortly after take-off on 14 August 2005, Nicosia air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the pilots operating the flight, named Olympia; it eventually crashed near Grammatiko, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board.
August 14, 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, a 737-300, suffered a gradual decompression which incapacitated five of the 6 crew members and all 115 passengers. The aircraft circled in the vicinity of Athens International Airport on its pre-programmed flight path before running out of fuel and crashing near Grammatiko ; everyone on board died.
If that had happened at a high altitude, above 30,000 feet, it could have been far more problematic.” ... One such case in 2005 was Helios Airways Flight 522, which did not pressurize at all due ...
On 14 August 2005, air traffic controllers lose radio contact with Helios Airways Flight 522. Two fighters from the Hellenic Air Force intercept and investigate the flight and find all but one person on board not moving. A few moments later, the aircraft runs out of fuel and crashes, killing all 121 people on board.
A good plan, which should have worked, isn't working.
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