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Helios Airways Flight 522 (HCY 522 or ZU522) was a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 at 12:04 EEST into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece. Rescue teams located wreckage near the community of Grammatiko 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Athens. more...

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All 121 people on board were killed—the highest death toll for an aviation accident in 2005 until the West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 in Venezuela just two days later.

Flight and crash

The flight, which left Larnaca, Cyprus at 09:07 local time, was en route to Athens, and was scheduled to continue to Prague. After the flight failed to contact air traffic control upon entering Greek air space, two F-16 fighter aircraft from the Hellenic Air Force 111th Combat Wing were scrambled from Nea Anchialos Air Base to establish visual contact. They noted that the aircraft appeared to be on autopilot. In accord with the rules for handling "renegade" aircraft incidents (where the aircraft is not under the pilots' control), one fighter approached to within 300 feet (100 m) of the ill-fated aircraft. The fighter pilot saw that the first officer was slumped motionless on the controls, and that the captain was not in the cockpit. Oxygen masks were seen dangling in the cabin.

Somewhat later, the F-16 pilots saw someone enter the cockpit and sit at the controls, soon to be joined by another person where the first officer had been sitting, both seemingly trying to regain control of the aircraft. Within minutes one engine, then the other ran out of fuel and the aircraft crashed into a hill, scattering wreckage and bodies and bursting into flame.

The aircraft was carrying 115 passengers and a crew of 6. The passengers included 67 due to disembark at Athens, with the remainder continuing to Prague. The bodies of 118 individuals have been recovered . The passenger list included 93 adults and 22 people under the age of 18. Cypriot nationals comprised 103 of the passengers (mostly of Greek descent and some of Armenian) and Greek nationals comprised the remaining 12.

Background

The aircraft involved in this incident was first flown on December 29, 1997 and had been operated by dba until it was leased by Helios Airways on April 16, 2004 and nicknamed "Olympia", with registration 5B-DBY. Aside from the downed aircraft, the Helios fleet consists of two leased Boeing 737-800s and an Airbus A319-111 delivered May 14, 2005.

With 121 dead, this was 2005's worst aircraft crash to date (although it was exceeded only two days later by the West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crash, which killed 160) and was the second accident of the year that caused more than 100 fatalities, the first being Kam Air Flight 904 with 104 deaths. It is the 69th crash of a Boeing 737 (the most numerous passenger aircraft in the world) since it was brought into service in 1968.

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