moments last and lifetimes are lost in a day
Reading about the plane that crashed near Athens made me really glad to be back on home ground. It sounds so horrible, not that any plane crash is good but this is just horrible.
Greek government spokesman Theodore Roussopoulos said the F-16 pilots reported that with the pilots out of action there may have been a last-gasp effort by others on the plane to bring it back under control.
"The F-16s saw two individuals in the cockpit seemingly trying to regain control of the airplane," Roussoupoulos said. It was not known if they were passengers or other crew.
"The F-16s also saw oxygen masks down when they got close to the aircraft. The aircraft was making continuous right-hand turns to show it had lost radio contact."
A passenger on the doomed plane said in an SMS text to his cousin in Athens: "The pilot has turned blue. Cousin farewell, we're freezing."
Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence, told Reuters: "When he talks about being extremely cold, that really suggests that there was possibly no air circulating in the cabin at all."
There were 17 children under the age of 16 on board, the youngest aged 4.
Greek government spokesman Theodore Roussopoulos said the F-16 pilots reported that with the pilots out of action there may have been a last-gasp effort by others on the plane to bring it back under control.
"The F-16s saw two individuals in the cockpit seemingly trying to regain control of the airplane," Roussoupoulos said. It was not known if they were passengers or other crew.
"The F-16s also saw oxygen masks down when they got close to the aircraft. The aircraft was making continuous right-hand turns to show it had lost radio contact."
A passenger on the doomed plane said in an SMS text to his cousin in Athens: "The pilot has turned blue. Cousin farewell, we're freezing."
Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence, told Reuters: "When he talks about being extremely cold, that really suggests that there was possibly no air circulating in the cabin at all."
There were 17 children under the age of 16 on board, the youngest aged 4.