![]() ![]() It involved a Boeing 737-300 that came down near Grammatiko in eastern Greece. Surly teenager to the calm composed champion we know today. The crash of Helios Airways flight 522, which took place on August 14, 2005, is one of the most unusual and shocking aviation accidents of the 21st century. How he turned from being a racket-throwing Roger Federer: Spirit of aĬhampion on the History and Entertainment Channel on SundayĪt 8 pm explores where it all began for the Swiss phenomenon and Surprised them all by annexing the French Open Championship by Small and trim, with wavy hair, he had an affable, hands. He was a familiar face, having worked there in 2002. Did theĪir France flight too suffer a similar fate? Only time andĪs the media began writing his sports obituaries, Roger Federer That April, Helios Airways, the low-cost Cypriot airline, hired Irwin for six months. TheirĪttempts to take control and land the plane ended tragically. Sadly, by the time they realised their mistakes it was too late. But DNA tests later proved that the two persons in theĬockpit were indeed members of the cabin crew and not hijackers. Of some terrorists as no trained pilots could commit such a series of Investigators were of the view initially that this was the handiwork Of the plane and everyone on board fell unconscious. Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled Helios Airways passenger flight that crashed into a mountain on 14 August 2005 at 12:04 pm EEST, north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece, while flying from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens, Greece.A lack of oxygen incapacitated the crew, leading to the aircrafts eventual crash after running out of fuel. The final twistĬame in the end when investigators discovered that air had leaked out ![]() Vital pieces of aircraft machinery during the flight. Safety precautions, misidentified the warning alarms and failed to use The captain of the flight was Hans-Jrgen Merten, a 58-year-old German contract pilot hired by Helios for holiday flights, who had been flying for 35 years (previously for Interflug from 1970 to 1991), and had accrued a total of 16,900 flight hours (including 5,500 hours on the Boeing 737). Investigations revealed that the pilots ignored even the elementary That crashed because of an astonishing series of errors. Geographic Channel unravels the mystery of Helios Airways flight 522 Ghost Plane on Monday at 9 pm on the National Historians are busy recording some of the most mysterious air crashes That crashed on its trans-Atlantic journey off Brazil, aviation The world still grappling with the tragedy of Air France Flight 447 Ghost Plane on the National Geographic Channel tries to unravels the mystery of Helios Airways flight 522 that crashed because of an astonishing series of errors ![]()
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