#helios airways flight 522

[randomwikiarticles]

Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece. Shortly after take-off on 14 August 2005, air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the aircraft operating the flight, named Olympia; it eventually crashed near Grammatiko, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Greek history.[1][2]

An investigation into the crash by the Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board (AAIASB) concluded that the crew had neglected to set the pressurization system to automatic during the take-off checks. This caused the plane not to be pressurized during the flight and resulted in nearly everyone on board suffering from generalized hypoxia, thus resulting in a ghost flight.

[boneless-mika]

Swedish shoutout in an episode of Well, There’s Your Problem! (brief mention of Mentour Pilot who is, yes, Swedish)

[zmwrites]

Hi there buddy, my name is Athena. I'm coming to say hi, see how you're doing and this is a chance to ramble about your wips. Have any of your wips been influenced/inspired by podcasts or any other media?

hello Athena!! you keep spooking me with your url changes, and i end up looking like caveman spongebob trying to figure out who’s sending me asks

many of my wips have been inspired by media i’ve consumed! not podcasts, as i don’t listen to podcasts (i have tried but my brand of adhd makes me tune them out if i’m not sitting still and consciously listening to them), but from just about everything else!!

recently i was inspired to start two new wips by media. they’re both still at the “vague idea” stage but i’m hoping to develop them more.

1 - nightwood wip (which i keep trying to call the nightwell wip so i’ll probably rename it). inspired by my marathons of lockwood & co, the law according to lidia poet, and the night agent. (i 100% just smashed two of the inspiring titles together for the temporary wip name and i’m not even sorry.)

this one’s about a disaster twentysomething working as a barista by day and a bartender by night who is thrown into the world of demon hunting and shadowy government agencies when her brother is kidnapped and she’s the only witness. features a shitty dead dad whose misogyny is still fucking over his daughter, a woman willing to go to the end of the world (and beyond) to save her brother, a golden retriever-coded man trying to keep her alive while unraveling a web of corruption, secretive quasi-government agencies, and some fun demon fighting gadgets.

2 - plane crash wip. i don’t even have a better temporary title for it than that. this one came about bc i watched a few minutes of a horror movie on facebook (called flight 7500). i then went on a research deep dive into the flight it was based on (helios airways flight 522) and then other depressurization incidents, then other plane crashes caused by mechanical failures, then plane crashes caused by pilot error…. it was a real spiral. smash that fixation together with the ads for the new season of departure (never watched the show but i want to), leftover love for the night agent, and being reminded of my love for fringe, and i ended up with a new story concept!

it centres around a woman (currently a journalist, but this might change) who’s first on scene after a passenger jet crashes. air traffic control lost contact with the plane and it’s assumed to be a depressurization incident, but as she’s searching for survivors she realizes something is off—there’s no survivors, because there’s no bodies. a (suspicious) fire erupts during the investigation, destroying most of the evidence before it can be collected, and officials are quick to announce that it burned so hot that recovering bodies won’t be possible. our leading lady digs for answers—where did the passengers go? why is the government so quick to cover it up?—and quickly finds herself digging into secrets that were meant to stay buried.

as you can tell, i’m in my government conspiracy/cover-up story era 😌 i don’t have much experience writing contemporary or thriller-type things, so we’ll see how this goes!!

thank you for the ask and for the opportunity to ramble!!

[jdpink]

Helios 522, do you read?”

These immortal words, spoken again and again in futile expectation of a reply, have since come to embody one of history’s most haunting air disasters, one which played out in the sunny skies over Greece on the 14th of August, 2005. It was a catastrophe unlike almost any other: a Boeing 737 full of passengers, circling on autopilot off the coast of Athens, in complete radio silence with no one at the controls. In the windows, people lay slumped over, unmoving; the captain’s seat sat empty; and yet the engines continued to run, propelling the plane around and around until it ran out of fuel. Fighter jets followed it down, watching as it glided to its doom, when, to their amazement, a person appeared in the cockpit — a mysterious figure, not one of the pilots, who sat in the left seat and whispered desperate “mayday” calls until the end, unable to stop the plane from crashing. Who was this lonely soul still clinging to life aboard a ghost plane? What horrible fate had befallen the passengers and crew?

….

Unfortunately, Captain Merten and First Officer Charalambous never donned their oxygen masks, and never realized that their airplane had not pressurized. The cabin altitude was approaching the death zone when Merten apparently got out of his chair to find the circuit breakers, collapsed from lack of oxygen, and never woke up. Charalambous fell unconscious at around the same time, still strapped into his seat. Those passengers and flight attendants who put on their oxygen masks would have stayed awake longer, but the passenger masks only provided about 12 minutes of oxygen, under the assumption that the pilots would descend to a lower altitude. Instead, flight 522 climbed on autopilot to 34,000 feet, the altitude which had been set by the crew, and leveled off. No doubt with increasing concern, the passengers would have waited for some announcement from the cockpit, but none ever came, and one by one they began to lose consciousness, swallowed up by a dizzying, euphoric blackness…. Autopsies showed that all 121 passengers and crew were alive on impact, proving that the lack of motion observed by the F-16 pilots was because the occupants were unconscious, not dead.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.14 (after 1930)

1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land. 1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States. 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1947 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire. 1948 – Beaver drop a Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho. The program involved parachuting beavers into the Chamberlain Basin. 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner. 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain. 1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. 2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 – Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. 2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people. 2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. 2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board. 2015 – The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off. 2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. 2022 – An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens. 2023 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

[daniellew150]

Things of 2023, Part 4, YouTube

I think I probably watch more YouTube than any streaming service.  Definitely some carry over from last year, but so good they need to be called out. 

PhilosophyTube

Just goes from strength to strength. The production values are way above what you would expect for an independent creator. I don’t think there is a single video Abigail has put out this year that I haven’t watched at least three times. Effective Altruism, Ethical AI and Plagiarism have all been stand outs, and I cannot wait to see what 2024 brings. 

Well There’s Your Problem

Another channel that just keeps getting better. It was wonderful to see them break the 100K subscriber barrier, and they didn’t disappoint. My favourites this year have been the most recent one on the De Havilland Comet, Helios Airways Flight 522, and Therac-25. Hard to believe again how much effort goes into creating these (and the bonus Patreon episodes are worth every penny). 

That Pedal Show

What can I say? this has been a crazy year, Noel Gallagher, Johnny Marr, Mike Vennart, Chris Shiflett, and that’s just some of the guests. The One Guitar, One Amp, No Pedals challenge. The Coronation Pickin’ challenge, are just a small number of the great videos, to put out around an hour long video once a week is insane, add in the Monday VCQ’s and it’s just awesome. I was also in a position to go on one of their Experience Days back in January, and it was mind blowing, to play some of that gear and really revel in the ability to play at volume was fantastic. 2024 is going to be the year I find a way to do that more often.  Well done Dan & Mick. 

The JHS Show

Not watched the JHS Pedals channel as much this year, but the NOTAKLON launch has to go down as one of the best product launches I think I have ever seen. 

Penfriend

I found Laura through the Obey Robots record, but her work as Penfriend is also brilliant, and her live streamed gigs are just a chilled out joy to watch. 

Colin Furze

Nutcase who is building a whole tunnel system under his house. Not much more to say really. 

hbomberguy

New to me this year, but his nearly 4 hour long video on Plagiarism on YouTube was amazing, the time and effort required to do so much investigation is crazy. Well worth a watch (if you have 4 hours to spare). 

So many others, but these I think are the cream of the crop for 2023. 

[apollopigeon]

We’re all just passengers on the Helios Airways flight EARTH.

of course if the cognitive deficits from raised CO2 levels are already kicking in, explaining the reversal of the Flynn effect, then the costs are compounding.

[5factum]

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[mothmvn]

helios airways flight 522 has been haunting me for like a month

[deadstrangeblog]

In 2005, Flight 522 of Helios Airways was flying from Cyprus to Greece when Air Traffic Controllers noticed it was veering slightly off it’s course. Panic began to erupt when the plane’s crew weren’t responded to any radio messages. After dozens of attempts to contact the pilot, officials had no choice other than to send in two fighter jets to intercept the plane. As the military F-16 jets flew alongside the rouge aircraft, they noticed that there wasn’t anybody flying the plane. The pilot was nowhere to be seen. Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the pilot was laying on the floor and his co-pilot was slumped over his chair. There appeared to be no movement from any passengers either.

This is because everybody on-board was dead.

117 passengers and crew had suffocated to death after the pilot had forgotten to pressurise the cabin before reaching altitude, resulting in a painful flight of shortness of breath and eventual asphyxia. Autopilot took over the flight and it eventually crashed into a hillside and burst into flames, as is seen above. Some experts believe that it isn’t possible for the flight to be in the air that long without somebody realising there was a problem. A flight from Cyprus to neighbouring Greece takes on average 1 hour and 45 minutes on a standard route. The plane was in the air for an hour before the accident occurred making this a very unusual case.

[apollopigeon]

Now I’m curious what’s the most people that have died on a flight that didn’t crash.

Maybe the explosive decompression over Hawaii that killed nine people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811 If the one guy had gotten to the cockpit just a few minutes sooner it could have been Helios tough - everyone dead from lack of oxygen https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko-the-crash-of-helios-airways-flight-522-ccf333b407a

Had a dream where I was on a plane and multiple people died even though it didn't crash. There was a fire and some sort of other disaster. By the end of the flight it was strangely empty

[middleclassfashion]

692

The anxiety is gone and that is a relief. I think my trip helped. I got to swim in the ocean. I went to bed early every night. My dad cooked swordfish the first night, we had oysters at Peg Leg Pete’s the second night, and on the third night we had a big dinner at Atlas during which I had edamame, tuna tartar, calamari, a rainbow roll, and key lime pie.

I was very scared to fly alone, but I kept myself as calm as possible. Now that i’m home, I’ve been watching plane crash videos nonstop because I guess I like to torture myself. The most interesting and creepy one is the Ghost Plane, Helios Airways Flight 522. This happened in 2005. It just kept coasting through the air an hour past when it was supposed to land. Air traffic control could not reach them, so they sent some fighter jets to fly up next to it. When they looked in the windows, they saw everybody slumped over and passed out. The cabin was not pressurized and that’s what slowly killed everybody. This happened because a mechanic had been working on the plane and had left the pressurizing control on manual instead of auto. 

[droneworks]

Βρεθήκαμε στο σημείο μνήμης του αεροπορικού δυστυχήματος, εκεί που 121 συνάνθρωποί μας έχασαν την ζωή τους με τον πλέον βάναυσο τρόπο! Οι εικόνες που αντικρίσαμε προκαλούν οργή και αγανάκτηση! Το μνημείο με τις φωτογραφίες των θυμάτων, ακριβώς μπροστά από την εκκλησία που χτίστηκε στην μνήμη τους μετά την τραγωδία, έχει υποστεί σοβαρές ζημιές και κανείς δεν έχει ενδιαφερθεί! 16 ολόκληρα χρόνια έχουν περάσει από την μεγαλύτερη αεροπορική τραγωδία στην Ελλάδα! Ήταν η 14η Αυγούστου του 2005 όταν η πτήση 522 της Helios Airways με 115 επιβάτες και 6 άτομα πλήρωμα συνετρίβη βόρεια του Γραμματικού Αττικής! Από το σημείο συντριβής ανασύρθηκαν 118 σοροί. 16 χρόνια μετά τους θυμούνται μόνο συγγενείς και φίλοι!

We were at the memorial site of the plane crash, where 121 of our fellow human beings lost their lives in the most brutal way! The images we saw cause anger and indignation! The monument with the photos of the victims, right in front of the church that was built in their memory after the tragedy, has been seriously damaged and no one has been interested! 16 whole years have passed since the biggest air tragedy in Greece! It was the 14th of August 2005 when the flight 522 of Helios Airways with 115 passengers and 6 crew members crashed north of Grammatiko, Attica! 118 bodies were retrieved from the crash site. 16 years later only relatives and friends remember them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k19E7jHIu4c

[rfks-brain-worms]

Let me join! On august 14th, 2005, the Helios Airways flight 522 did not crash because of DOD testing weapons in the area which struck the plane while it was taking off resulting in depressurization but the round was unnoticed by the crew and passengers and so when the ghost flight crashed killing everybody on board they shifted the blame onto the companies succesfully covering up the deaths.

my favorite thing about tumblr is that i can just make shit up and no one would ever know

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.14 (after 1900)

1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. 1914 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive. 1917 – World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war. 1920 – The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history. 1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land. 1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States. 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1947 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire. 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. 1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner. 1971 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain. 1972 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. 2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 – Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. 2006 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. 2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people. 2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. 2013 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board. 2015 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off. 2021 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis. 2022 – An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.

[spacepearl]

what happened to helios airways flight 522 always kinda creeps me out but also makes me feel sad, esp for the flight attendant who was probs the last one awake/alive but couldn't do anything to save the plane :(