**Plane Crash in Greece**

[Analog]

A Cypriot plane carrying 121 people has crashed north of Athens after losing contact with air traffic controllers, Greek officials said. Authorities had sent two Greek F-16 jets to escort the Boeing 737 after the control tower at Athens international airport lost contact with the pilots, state media reported. One of the F-16 pilots reported he could not see the captain in the cockpit and that the co-pilot appeared to be slumped in his seat, a Greek Defense Ministry official told Reuters.

 

[Sheepathon]

Zeus is gettin pretty bored with those thunderbolts. He needs to get back to throwing the damn things at Poseidon's pet dolphins.

Yes, I know lightning hits planes all the time with no effect.

edit: here's a news link to go with that thread title.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Zeus is gettin pretty bored with those thunderbolts. He needs to get back to throwing the damn things at Poseidon's pet dolphins.

Yes, I know lightning hits planes all the time with no effect.

edit: here's a news link to go with that thread title.

I bet you wouldn't make a remark like that if this was in the U.S

 

Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Zeus is gettin pretty bored with those thunderbolts. He needs to get back to throwing the damn things at Poseidon's pet dolphins.

Yes, I know lightning hits planes all the time with no effect.

edit: here's a news link to go with that thread title.

How about you STFU?

121 people just died.

 

[loup garou]

🙁

 

[Cattlegod]

any ideas what happened?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Zeus is gettin pretty bored with those thunderbolts. He needs to get back to throwing the damn things at Poseidon's pet dolphins.

Yes, I know lightning hits planes all the time with no effect.

edit: here's a news link to go with that thread title.

How about you STFU?

121 people just died.

agreed


🙁

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
any ideas what happened?

sounds mechanical, the cabin lost pressure and both pilots lost consciousness.

 

[TheChort]

 

[Appledrop]

🙁 damn.. My dad is going to athens in a few days

 

[tk149]

🙁

 

[imported_Kensai]

🙁

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
any ideas what happened?

sounds mechanical, the cabin lost pressure and both pilots lost consciousness.

A man whose cousin was a passenger on the plane told Greece's Alpha television he received a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash.

"He told me the pilots were unconscious. ... He said:

"Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen," Sotiris Voutas said.

x 121 🙁

 

[Acanthus]

very bad news indeed.

to the families who lost someone on that flight.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
any ideas what happened?

sounds mechanical, the cabin lost pressure and both pilots lost consciousness.

A man whose cousin was a passenger on the plane told Greece's Alpha television he received a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash.

"He told me the pilots were unconscious. ... He said:

"Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen," Sotiris Voutas said.

x 121 🙁

WTF did that mean? Or did it just get lost in translation.

 

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
any ideas what happened?

sounds mechanical, the cabin lost pressure and both pilots lost consciousness.

A man whose cousin was a passenger on the plane told Greece's Alpha television he received a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash.

"He told me the pilots were unconscious. ... He said:

"Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen," Sotiris Voutas said.

x 121 🙁

WTF did that mean? Or did it just get lost in translation.

Loss of cabin pressure means drastic temperature changes.

 

[effee]

I thought cellphones didnt get reception that high up? I've tried switching on my cell before in flight, but it didnt get any reception.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: effee
I thought cellphones didnt get reception that high up? I've tried switching on my cell before in flight, but it didnt get any reception.

No, you'd be surprised.

 

[mrrman]

what a tragedy.. 🙁

 

[UnatcoAgent]

I have a friend who was going to Greece today from Canada. I don't know what airline she was flying or if she made a stop off before going to Athens.

This is terrible, I have no idea if she was on that plane.

 

Originally posted by: Sabot
I have a friend who was going to Greece today from Canada. I don't know what airline she was flying or if she made a stop off before going to Athens.

This is terrible, I have no idea if she was on that plane.

I can almost guarantee that she wasn't on it.

A plane coming from Canada would almost certainly not have landed in Cyprus before going onto Greece. Athens is a huge airport; there's no reason to land in Cyprus first.

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: Son of a N00b

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: Sheepathon
Zeus is gettin pretty bored with those thunderbolts. He needs to get back to throwing the damn things at Poseidon's pet dolphins.

Yes, I know lightning hits planes all the time with no effect.

edit: here's a news link to go with that thread title.

How about you STFU?

121 people just died.

agreed


🙁

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: Sabot
I have a friend who was going to Greece today from Canada. I don't know what airline she was flying or if she made a stop off before going to Athens.

This is terrible, I have no idea if she was on that plane.

I can almost guarantee that she wasn't on it.

A plane coming from Canada would almost certainly not have landed in Cyprus before going onto Greece. Athens is a huge airport; there's no reason to land in Cyprus first.

Ok, that sounds right to me, I don't know why they wouldn't go directly there.

I don't understand how the cockpit would lose oxygen, don't they have oxygen masks?

 

[Megatomic]

🙁

What a horrible way to go, knowing it's happening and being unable to do anything about it. 🙁

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: effee
I thought cellphones didnt get reception that high up? I've tried switching on my cell before in flight, but it didnt get any reception.

I've been able to get reception in a plane before, so I'm sure it's possible. Just think of 9/11 with the plane that crashed into the ground, people made calls from that one IIRC.