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121 feared dead in Greek Airliner crash
Simply horrific. "They" have always thought about lack of oxygen during an explosive decompression, but apparently nobody ever thought about people freezing to death. Scary.
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121 feared dead in Greek Airliner crash
They shouldn't freeze to death because the plane should be able to get to lower altitude before that happens.

Apparently though the plane was experiencing problems with the heating/air conitioning system. And that is probably why they froze (not because of the air conditioning itself but cause they had no heating at all to counter the cold).
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The valid question remains, why didn't they descend? They would've noticed the cold problem long before it rendered them incapacitated.

This is a confusing one.
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It's possible that if the cockpit decompressed for long enough, most of the instrumentation would start to freeze into place, The decom must have rendered the pilots unconcious or somehow unable to get to their masks.
Either way, it's a terrible tragedy :(

 

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121 feared dead in Greek Airliner crash
It seems the text message that was sent from the plane was faked.
The guy who told the story was arrested earlier.

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Greek police have arrested a man who claimed his cousin sent him a text message from the aircraft minutes before it crashed saying that everyone was frozen.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4154748.stm

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4156224.stm

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121 feared dead in Greek Airliner crash
Geez.. I'm getting more scared about flying by the day, despite having flown dozens of times.
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What the hell is it with the airplane crashes lately?
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Offline Fragrag

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Ditto, there has been at least 3 crashes in the last 3 or so weeks, I don't remember hearing a crash for some time before that.
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Crap, and I have to fly in a couple of weeks.......over the Pacific.


I'm not going to cancel. This has me a bit shaken though, even though the odds of an airplane going down are still highly improbable.
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Indeed. It seems like a lot only because they happen so rarely. For every one of these plane accidents there are countless people killed in cars.
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Originally posted by Zuljin
It seems the text message that was sent from the plane was faked.
The guy who told the story was arrested earlier.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4154748.stm


I said right from the start that I found that message odd. Glad the idiot behind it was arrested.
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