All charges were dismissed and the defendants acquitted. In Cyprus, the case, which was before the Nicosia Assize Court, was suspended following the Athens ruling. Helios Airways: Crashed 14/08/05 near Grammatikos, Greece - 121 fatalities : Correct Photos. The three executives were given the option to buy out their 10-year sentence, paying 73,000 euros ($81,650) to stay out of jail. Serial number 29099 LN:2982 Type 737-31S First flight date Test registration Seat. The plane flew for hours on automatic pilot before running out of fuel and crashing into a hill near Athens. The engineer was found guilty of failing to reset a pressure valve, causing both crew and passengers to pass out from lack of oxygen. Approximately three hours into the flight, the Boeing 737-300 carrying 121 passengers and crew crashed into the mountains, killing all onboard. The Athens court found the three executives guilty of allowing the Boeing 737-300 to take off with an unfit replacement crew. Helios Director Demetris Pantazis, Flight Operations Director Andreas Kikkides and Chief Pilot Ianko Stoimenov were found guilty of manslaughter with conscious negligence, a misdemeanor.Ĭhief Engineer Alan Irwin, the fourth defendant, who had checked the aircraft before the doomed flight, was found not guilty. 2, 2013, a Court of Appeals in Athens convicted three of the four defendants in the Helios air disaster of 2005. 14 2005, the Helios Boeing 737-300, en route from Larnaca to Prague via Athens, crashed into a mountain, near Grammatiko, north of Athens, and claimed the lives of all 121 people on board, most of them Cypriots going on holiday.Īround 70 people traveled to Athens to attend a service at the site of the crash in Grammatiko where a small church has been built, the Cyprus Mail reported. The crash is the fourth-deadliest involving a 737-300. Due to the serious problems that Helios Airways encountered after the tragic accident. marked the 69th crash of a Boeing 737 since it was brought into service in 1968. A memorial service to the 121 people who died in the Helios air disaster 11 years ago was held in Paralimni on Cyprus on Aug. On 14 August 2005, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft, registration number 5B-DBY, operated by Helios Airways, departed Larnaca, Cyprus at 06:07 h for Prague, Czech. The move follows the high-profile crash of a Helios Boeing 737-300 on 14 August last year in which.

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