air crash investigation helios 522 season 4 episode 10 ghost plane

a boeing 737 departs cyprus for athens greece on an early morning flight for charter company helios airlines andres pudremau is filing in as a flight attendant (he is one but wasn’t scheduled hewants to be a pilot). the pilots are highly experienced pilots the fo is from cyprus. 115 passengers are on board the low cost flight. the takeoff and inital climb is normal leaving just after 9am. minutes into the flight an odd warning goes off in the cockpit which the crew think its the takeoff config warning which shouldn’t go off at altitude they contact maitence but get no clue on what the problem is and they tthnag et a master caution warning in the cabin the oxygen masks are lowered. the flight attendants are waiting for information and the pilots don’t know what is going on and are confused by the warnings they almost figure out the problem but reply with a different question not checking what the mechanic says they than are unconcinious the crew and most passengers are and they are 30 minutes into the flight. atc can’t communicate with the plane either. greece sends fighter jets to investigate the 737 and see what is happening and find all but one flight attendant unconchious the steward (andres) enters the cockpit but its too late to save the plane it hits a hill killing everyone on board who wasn’t already dead after running out of fuel. the investigation determines the cause of the crash to be maitence not turning the presurisation to auto which meant the plane didn’t presurise and caused everyone to be unconchicious how andres stayed well during the ordeal is not really explained.

next time season 5 windshear dooms a l-1011.

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