According to recent reports, the Helios Airways aircraft that crashed in Greece sent an emergency "mayday" signal seconds before it crashed.
This indicates that there was at least one survivor aboard the craft until the moment of impact.
The news has been relatively scarce concerning the results of so-called "black box" flight recorder data. There had been fears that all the critical information concerning the aircraft had been erased because the black box contains a loop-style tape and therefore could have overwritten evidence of events early in the flight that could have caused the aircraft to crash. However, if there was indeed activity in the cockpit until shortly before the accident, then the recorder might yield information of interest after all.
Although a slow leak in cabin pressure has been identified by authorities as a cause, presumably leading to some form of incapacitation of the pilots that caused the aircraft to run out of fuel and crash while on autopilot, an official report on the cause of the accident has not been issued.
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