A MINIBUS carrying thirteen Cypriot holidaymakers in the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm El-Sheikh crashed yesterday evening on its way back from the Monastery of St. Catherine, killing seven passengers as well as the Egyptian driver and injuring another three.
Four of the dead were from the same family.
New Luton scare delays planes in Larnaca
HELIOS AIRWAYS said yesterday it was sending its two Boeing 737-800s to Sweden for checks next week to ease public concern.
Voice recorder delivers new pieces to crash puzzle
GREEK authorities yesterday announced they had recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Helios Airways Boeing, which crashed near Athens on Sunday killing everyone on board.
A HELIOS flight to Strasbourg was delayed at Larnaca airport yesterday morning when one of the passengers suffered a panic attack.
THE FORMER commercial manager of Helios, whose family set up the airline in 1999, said yesterday the airline was not a cowboy outfit.
THE NEW crossing point at Zodhia will not open until it is established that both sides are ready, the UN said yesterday.
ALTHOUGH the sequence of events in the cockpit of the crashed Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 remains a mystery, earlier incidents have shown the crucial importance of reacting promptly to airline depressurisations.
THERE is increasing interest in the background and fate of Captain Hans-Juergen Merten, the pilot of the Helios Airways ZU 522 flight which crashed into mountain in Greece last Sunday, killing all 121 passengers and crew members on board.
The German Embassy in Athens only yesterday officially requested information about Merten’s body, which has not yet been found.
RELATIVES of the victims of the Helios crash yesterday accused the Greek authorities of negligence and ineptitude after reports that the 23 bodies flown back to Cyprus had not been properly refrigerated and were in a state of decomposition.
THE RECENT crashes of a Helios plane in Greece that killed 121 and a Caribbean Airways plane in Venezuela that killed 160 have re-sparked discussion in the EU to establish a universal ‘black list’ for certain airlines or airplanes.
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