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Coroner: 6 Alive When Greek Plane Crashed

Monday, August 15, 2005 10:08:41 PM
By PATRICK QUINN

Investigators examine the tail of a Cypriot airliner that slammed into a hillside, killing all 121 people on board in the coastal town of Grammatiko, Greece on Monday, Aug. 15, 2005. The Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Athens after apparent technical failure, resulting in high-altitude decompression. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Initial autopsies showed that at least six of the 121 people aboard a Cypriot plane were alive but not necessarily conscious when the aircraft crashed while on autopilot, a coroner said Monday, as authorities struggled to explain the actions of the pilot and crew.

The results of the first six autopsies shed some light on the final minutes of Helios Airlines Flight ZU522, which crashed Sunday into a hillside in suburban Athens, killing all 115 passengers and six crew members. But they failed to answer all the questions.

In Larnaca, the Cypriot city where the flight took off, police raided the offices of Helios Airlines, seeking "evidence which could be useful for the investigation into possible criminal acts," said Cypriot deputy presidential spokesman Marios Karoyian.


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