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Twenty years on from the Helios tragedy

Twenty years ago on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300 took off at 9.07am from Larnaca airport with 115 passengers and six crew on board. By 12.03pm, no one on that Helios Airways flight was alive. The ...
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Helios 522: The flight that turned into a flying coffin

On August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300, registered as 5B-DBY, departed from Cyprus en route to Athens. Shortly after takeoff, all communication with the aircraft was lost, yet it continued to fly ...