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Air disaster in Greece, August 2005: the cause is a human mistake

Athens, Greece - Non automatic activation of cockpit decompression system would have caused leck of oxygen

Athens’ newspaper reported the news that a human mistake and not a technical damage caused the crash of Helios fight last August 14 against mountains North the Greek Capital. Technicians at Larnaca airport, press writes, would have forgotten to enter automatic activation of cockpit decompression system, leaving it on manual activation. When the B-737/300 began losing height, oxygen began to fail i...

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Rome, Italy, 05/22/2006 17:19
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