Pilot 'alive when plane crashed' (Cyprus Airliner Greece Crash) [View All]

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/16/greece.crash/index.html

The co-pilot of a Cyprus airliner that crashed killing all 121 on board was alive when the plane went down, according to the chief coronor of the investigation.

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"All the autopsies on victims carried out so far, including on the co-pilot, showed they died of their injuries meaning they were alive when the plane crashed," Reuters reported Philippos Koutsaftis as saying.

Examinations of 20 bodies, including that of a flight attendant, have already indicated they were alive when the plane crashed, an Athens coroner said.

Nikos Kalogrias, one of seven coroners, said the 20 victims' hearts and lungs were working at the time of the crash. "The attendant was alive and died of injuries" sustained in the crash, he told The Associated Press.

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Meanwhile the airline said a text message reportedly sent to a relative by a "freezing" passenger onboard the airliner was a hoax and the sender, Nektarios Voutas, had been arrested.