12/5/2023 0 Comments Mayday helios airways flight 522![]() ![]() The man pointed downwards, as though in acknowledgement, but never actually followed the fighter plane. One of the F-16 pilots signalled to the man that he should follow the fighter jet down towards an airport. Sometime after 11:54 am, the fighter pilots finally managed to catch the eye of the person sitting in the captain's seat on Flight 522. To the fighter pilots, he appeared not to be wearing an oxygen mask and to be trying to take control of the aircraft. Then, around 30 minutes after they first approached the ghost plane, the fighter pilots saw a mysterious movement in the cockpit.Ī man wearing a light blue shirt and a dark vest suddenly appeared in the cockpit and sat in the captain's seat. The fighter pilots kept trailing Flight 522, making several unsuccessful attempts to establish radio contact. The fighter pilots were also able to see silhouettes of oxygen masks hanging from overhead compartments inside the passenger cabin. ![]() The captain's seat was empty, while in the passenger cabin, a few people were seen sitting unconsciously with oxygen masks strapped to their faces. The F-16 pilots reported seeing the passenger jet's co-pilot slumped over his controls, apparently unconscious. READ | What went wrong on Jet Airways flight whose pilots forgot to maintain cabin pressureĪll attempts at contacting the plane failed - until finally, an alert was declared at 10:53 am and two F-16 fighter jets of the Greek air force (Flight 522 had entered Greek airspace by then) were scrambled to intercept the passenger jet mid-air.Īt 11:23 am, the F-16s intercepted Flight 522 and carried out a visual inspection to learn that they were next to what essentially was a ghost plane. ATC controllers even asked several aircraft in the vicinity to try and contact Helios Flight 522, which radars showed was flying its normal course. For the next hour, different ATC centres made over 20 attempts to get in touch with the plane's pilots. However, he got no response, which prompted him to get in touch with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) centre that was handling Flight 522. The pilots of Flight 522 and a company engineer spent some six minutes discussing the problems.Ī few minutes after their conversation ended, the ground engineer called up the cockpit. Moments after taking off, the captain of the plane contacted the Helios Airways's operations centre to seek help from ground engineers on some issues he was facing in the cockpit. ![]()
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