![]() ![]() Thereafter, there was no response to radio calls to the aircraft," the report said. ![]() "Several communications between the captain and the operations centre took place in the next eight minutes concerning the above problems and ended as the aircraft climbed through 8,800 metres. The captain contacted Helios's operations centre after takeoff and as the aircraft climbed though 4,900 metres, reporting that there were warnings going off in the cabin, according to the report. The report said latent causes included Helios's "deficiencies in the organization, quality management, and safety culture" and the regulatory authority's "inadequate execution of its safety oversight responsibilities" over time. Maintenance officials in Cyprus were also indirectly blamed, along with Cypriot civil aviation authorities. The plane flew on autopilot for two hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed. That led to the "incapacitation of the flight crew due to hypoxia," or lack of oxygen. It also said the direct cause of the crash was the crew's failure to recognize that the plane's pressurization switch was in the "manual position" before takeoff and not set to automatic - which would have allowed the cabin to pressurize by itself.Īfter takeoff whenthe plane failed to pressurize, the two pilots did not recognize "the warnings and the reasons for the activation of the warnings," including one showing that the oxygen masks dropped. The report was prepared by Akrivos Tsolakis, head of Greece's National Aviation Safety Board. Maintenance officials left pressure controls on an incorrect setting, the report said, and the aircraft's manufacturer, Boeing, was cited for "ineffectiveness of measures taken in response to previous pressurization incidents in the particular type of aircraft." The two pilots of the Cypriot 737-300 failed to competently operate controls regulating cabin pressure and misinterpreted a subsequent warning, which eventually led to the crew passing out and the jetliner's crashnorth of the Greek capital, according to a report delivered to Greece's transport minister. ![]() 14, 2005, the deadliest air disaster in the history of Greece and Cyprus. There were 17 children under the age of 16 on board, the youngest aged four.Investigators cited human error Tuesday as the main cause of the Helios Airways crash that killed all 121 passengers and crew near Athens on Aug. Greek TV reported yesterday that the pilot had told air traffic controllers the plane was experiencing problems with its air conditioning system shortly before contact was lost.Ī passenger list released by Cyprus's Transport Ministry showed a family of four Armenians living in Cyprus, 12 Greeks and 104 Cypriots were killed in the crash. The recovery of the black boxes is crucial to determining the cause of the worst air disaster in Greece and the worst involving a Cypriot airline. These are being sent to France for analysis. Rescue workers recovered the pilot's body, a German identified as Martin Hans Gurgen, and said they had found the plane's black box flight recorders, including the one that records pilot conversations. "Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the Defence Ministry source said today.Įarly indications suggest the 115 passengers and six crew were dead or unconscious when the Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed 40 kilometres north of Athens yesterday. ![]()
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