Cyprus plane crash victims "frozen solid"

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Cyprus plane crash victims "frozen solid"

By Brian Williams and Karolos Grohmann1 hour, 43 minutes ago



Most of the bodies recovered from a Cypriot plane that crashed near Athens with 121 people on board were frozen solid, a Greek official said, suggesting the airliner was a flying tomb before it plunged to earth.

As accident investigators combed the crash site for clues, aviation experts were baffled at what appeared to have been a catastrophic failure of cabin pressure or oxygen supply in freezing temperatures at 35,000 feet -- nearly 10 km (6 miles) up, higher than Mount Everest.

One expert said reports of extreme cold suggested there was no air circulating in the cabin.

"Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the Defense Ministry source, with access to the investigation, told Reuters on Monday.

The Helios Airways Boeing 737 was carrying 115 passengers and six crew when it crashed 40 km (25 miles) north of Athens on Sunday. There were no survivors.

Rescue workers recovered the body of the pilot, a German identified as Martin Hans Gurgen, and said they had found the plane's black box flight recorders, including the one that records pilot conversations, and would send them to France for analysis.
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Clearly a case of two pilots totally fookin' up
emergency procedures.

Ya know how the widdle O2 masks always fall from the overheads
in the movies?

Well they will do you zilch at 30K+

The co-pilot had a half a minute (so plenty of time)
to don the pressure oxygen mask and begin an emergency let down.

Guess the masks for the pilots din't werk???
 
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