THE Helios Boeing, which crashed near Athens last Sunday killing all 121 on board had lost cabin pressure and ran out of fuel, a preliminary report said yesterday.
And an exhausted-sounding man, thought to be flight-attendant Andreas Prodromou, tried to send a last-minute distress call, which never got out, the report said.
MAYDAY, Mayday, said the voice of the 25-year-old steward moments before the plane plunged into a mountain ravine.
THE HEALTH Minister met yesterday with relatives of victims of the Helios air crash after some of them called for better information on the proceedings to identity the remaining corpses.
The relatives sent their plea to the government on Sunday morning:
SEVEN Cypriot holidaymakers killed in a minibus crash in Sharm el-Sheikh last Friday were buried yesterday.
Seven Cypriots were killed and three were injured when a minibus travelling at high speed from St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai to Sharm el-Sheikh crashed.
THE NATIONAL Guard is endangering the lives of conscripts by listing the wrong blood types on their dog tags, according to a parent whose son recently joined the army to do his military service.
THE Air Moldova plane involved in an emergency landing at Larnaca Airport had no connection with Moldavian Airlines, as suggested in an item on August 20.
Moldavian Airlines and Air Moldova are two different Moldovan air companies. In recent times Moldavian Airlines has not operated any flight to Cyprus.
FORMER communications minister Averoff Neophytou yesterday denied he had any link with Helios Airways or its parent company Libra, as the argument over blame for the crash went into full swing yesterday.
Neophytou also took a shot at current minister Haris Thrasou, suggesting that he should have already resigned.
AROUND 200 Irish passengers were left stranded at Larnaca Airport on Sunday, in what was just one of several incidents of international air travel chaos over the weekend.
AS THE preliminary results of the Helios crash were published yesterday, the focus of media speculation centred on what political influences might have been at play when it came to the airline and its parent company Libra Holidays Group.
IN THE immediate aftermath of the Sharm el-Sheikh tragedy that saw seven Cypriots killed in a minibus crash, both the Foreign Ministry and the Cyprus Tourism Organisation came out with warnings to Cypriots travelling overseas to stick to their organised group excursions and not arrange any outings with non-approved local operators.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
