Cyprus Helios crash a traumatic experience and a “punch to the stomach

Seventeen years after the crash of Helios Airways Flight 522, which claimed the lives of 121 passengers and crew on board, Akrivos Tsolakis, the expert who carried out the investigation on the cause of the accident, told CNA that this has been a traumatic experience for him, a “punch to the stomach” which he will never forget. Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece. The flight crashed in the mountainous area of Grammatikos on August 14,...