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Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece.Shortly after take-off on 14 August 2005, Nicosia air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the pilots operating the flight, named Olympia; it eventually crashed near Grammatiko, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board.
Iowa State Cyclones women's cross country team: Cross country running: Private: Aero Commander twin-engine: Des Moines, Iowa, United States: 7: 6: All killed on the return trip from the 1985 Championships. 15 other members of the men's team and coaching staff were aboard 2 other planes which successfully made the trip the same night. [16] 8 ...
The plane climbed sluggishly to an altitude of just 209 feet (64 m) as it approached the 200-foot-tall (61 m) Pani Hill in Alimos, [4] [9] after which the plane lost altitude. [15] As it passed over Kallithea , Nea Smyrni , and Syggrou , its altitude was only 180 feet (55 m) and its speed was 160 miles per hour (140 kn; 260 km/h).
The tragic last words of two heroic pilots who died fighting wildfires in Greece have been revealed, as blazes continue to rage across Europe.. Commander Christos Moulas, 34, and co-pilot Pericles ...
A total of 50 people were killed: 49 passengers and crew and a resident of the house that was struck. Four injuries occurred on the ground, including two other people inside the home at the time of the crash. Among the dead were: Alison Des Forges, a human-rights investigator and an expert on the Rwandan genocide. [15] [33]
He then set out to interview the crash's survivors himself, and encouraged his actors to speak to them as well. "We had over 100 hours of recordings. And then we kept in contact with the survivors ...
The Minnesota Vikings endured a scary moment on Friday when their team plane slid off the runway while taxiing following a safe landing in Wisconsin.
The Boeing 707 flying this route ran out of fuel after a failed attempt to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), causing the aircraft to crash onto a hillside in the small village of Cove Neck, New York, on the north shore of Long Island. Eight of the nine crew members and 65 of the 149 passengers on board were killed.