Cyprus national has flown exclusively for Helios for the past 5 years and accumulated 7549 hours of flying experience. German pilot hired by Helios for holiday flights and had been flying for 35 years and accumulated 16900 hours of flying experience.įirst Officer:- Pampos C. The aircraft was first flown on 29th December 1997 and nicknamed OLYMPIA - the aircraft is 7 years and 8 months old.Ĭaptain:- Hans-Jurgen M.
HELIOS FLIGHT 522 REGISTRATION
It was operated on B737–300 with registration 5B-DBY. At 8:01 local time, Helios flight 522 was preparing for a flight to Prague, Czech Republic with an intermediate stop in Athens, Greece. The crash is the fourth-deadliest involving a 737-300.īraedey walked up to the memorial, pulled out a white rose from out of nowhere, and placed it down against the memorial. Flight 522's loss marked the 69th crash of a Boeing 737 since it was brought into service in 1968. With 121 fatalities, this was the deadliest aviation accident in Greek history. All 115 passengers and six crew on board the aircraft were killed.
Rescue teams located the wreckage near the community of Grammatiko, 40 km (25 mi) from Athens. A lack of oxygen incapacitated the crew, along with all the passengers onboard, leading to the aircraft's eventual crash after running out of fuel. Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled Helios Airways passenger flight that crashed into Gramatiko Hill on 14 August 2005 at 12:04 pm EEST, north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece, while flying from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens, Greece. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. After the drive from France, the gang all climbed up to the top of the hill, Shaggy and Scooby tiring out after the climb, where they saw a large white stone memorial of Helios 522, along with a Holy cross. The gang soon arrived at the foot of the Grammatiko Hills. Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European mainland.
According to Eurostat in 2011, the Functional urban areas (FUA) of Athens was the 9th most populous FUA in the European Union (the 6th most populous capital city of the EU), with a population of 3,828,000. The urban area of Athens (Greater Athens and Greater Piraeus) extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits, with a population of 3,090,508 (in 2011) over an area of 412 km2 (159 sq mi).
The municipality of Athens had a population of 664,046 (in 2011) within its administrative limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi).
It is one of the biggest economic centres in southeastern Europe, with a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the largest passenger port in Europe and the second largest in the world. Athens is recognised as a global city because of its location and its importance in shipping, finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, culture, education and tourism.