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Athens International Airport

Events

  • 14 August 2005

    Helios Airways Flight 522

    • Boeing 737
    • 121 people who died

    Helios Airways Flight 522, a Boeing 737-300 flying from Larnaca to Athens and Prague on 14 August 2005, never pressurised because a selector had been left in manual after overnight maintenance, and the pilots were overcome by hypoxia as the aircraft climbed on autopilot. It flew on unresponsive for almost three hours, circling near Athens until its fuel ran out, and crashed into hills near Grammatiko, killing all 121 people on board.

    3 videos
    • Mayday: Air Disaster
    • Mentour Pilot
    • No Survivors Found

Videos

  1. Helios Airways Flight 522: Inside the Ghost Plane Inquiry

    DocumentaryMayday: Air Disaster · 50:03

    Event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)

  2. Helios Airways 522: The Switch, the Horn and Andreas Prodromou

    DocumentaryMentour Pilot · 1:10:31

    Event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)

  3. Helios Airways Flight 522: How a 737 Flew On After Crew Hypoxia

    DocumentaryNo Survivors Found · 18:21

    Event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)

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