9/8/2023 0 Comments Youtube helios flight 522![]() ![]() Pampos Charalambous, 51, a Cypriot who flew for Helios, served as the first officer. Hans-Jürgen Merten, a 59-year-old German contract pilot hired by Helios for the holiday flights, served as the captain. The scheduled arrival time in Athens was 10:45. The flight was scheduled to leave Larnaca, Cyprus at 09:00 local time, to Prague via Athens. ![]() The aircraft had arrived in Larnaca from London Heathrow at 01:25 that morning. Aside from the downed aircraft, the Helios fleet consisted of two leased Boeing 737-800s and an Airbus A319-111 delivered on. The aircraft involved in this incident was first flown on 29 December 1997 and had been operated by DBA until it was leased by Helios Airways on 16 April 2004 and nicknamed Olympia, with registration 5B-DBY. File:Helios 737 olympia.jpgĪ Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 at London Luton Airport, England. pngĥB-DBY, the aircraft involved in the accident, is seen here at Ruzyne Airport in March 2005. The accident was the largest in the history of Greek aviation, along with one of the most serious in August 2005, a dark month for commercial aviation, which also featured, among others, the tragedies of West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 and TANS Perú Flight 204.Background File:Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 5D-DBY PRG. Finally, already over Greek territory, it hit a hill due to lack of fuel. The cause of the accident was due to the fact that after takeoff, as the aircraft gained altitude, a failure when configuring the pressurization regulator caused the loss of consciousness of both the pilots and the passengers due to hypoxia, turning the aircraft into at that time in a "ghost flight" that was only kept flying by the operation of the autopilot. The passengers comprised 103 Cypriot nationals and 12 Greek nationals. ![]() The passenger list included 93 adults and 22 children. Located by F-16s over Aegean island of KeaĬabin oxygen deployed, no signs of terrorismįighters see an individual in the cockpit,Īpparently trying to regain control of aircraftĬVR records a total of five mayday messages ![]() No response to radio calls from Athens ATCĪlerted to possible renegade aircraft :18 :17 Aircraft begins circling Athens on autopilot The first officer was Pampos Charalambous, a 51-year-old Cypriot pilot who had flown exclusively on Helios for the last five years, accumulating 7,549 flight hours throughout his career, 3,991 of them on the Boeing 737.Īll times Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) ( UTC + 3) in 24 h format The flight captain was Hans-Jürgen Merten, a 59-year-old German pilot hired by Helios for the holiday season, who had been flying for 35 years and had a total of 16,900 flight hours, 5,500 of them on Boeing 737s. It is the deadliest aviation disaster in Greek history. The aircraft, a Boeing 737, collided with a mountain at 09:04 UTC on that day, near Grammatiko, 40 km north of Athens (with 115 passengers and six crew members on board), while on approach to Athens airport capital. On August 14, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 covered the route between Larnaca International Airport (Cyprus), and Ruzyně International Airport (Prague, Czech Republic), with a stopover in Athens ( Greece). Prague Ruzyně Int'l Airport, Prague, Czech Republic Larnaca International Airport, Larnaca, Cyprus ![]()
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