Reply #84: And yet, it the effort to cover up the "frozen solid" aspect of this... [View All]

[Up2Late]

...story, the "executive air safety chairman" of the pilots union (Air Line Pilots Association, International) is tring to make it sound like something ruotine and easy to pull off in this report for the AP. :banghead: :mad:

It will be interesting to see how this is finnally Spun, most likely to blame it on pilot incompitence.

"...Authorities said the crash apparently was caused by technical failure that led to a high-altitude decompression. The plane went down in a mountainous region north of Athens, killing 115 passengers and six crew members.

Some media have reported that the victims froze in their seats before the crash, but Greek officials said the bodies were not cold when they were found. Chief Athens coroner Fillipos Koutsaftis said Monday that tests conducted on the remains showed that at least six victims were alive at the time of the crash. Those six could have been unconscious before impact, he said.

U.S. aviation experts said they could not understand the flight crew's behavior during the disaster. "It's odd," said Terry McVenes, executive air safety chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association, International. "It's a very rare event to even have a pressurization problem and, in general, crews are very well trained to deal with it." Warnings should go off if an airliner suddenly loses pressure, and pilots are trained to put their oxygen masks on immediately and dive to about 12,000 feet, where there's enough oxygen to breathe, experts said...." <http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-greece-crash-theories,0,5234136.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines >