According to the AP:
But two fighter jet pilots who scrambled to intercept the plane saw the co-pilot slumped over, oxygen masks in the plane dangling, and two unidentified people trying to take control of the plane. The pilot was not in his seat when the plane crashed, about 2 1/2 hours after the crew first radioed in air conditioning problems.
“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.”
Odd, indeed.
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Sources:
- 121 Killed in Plane Crash in Greece, 48 of Them Children
- Cyprus plane crash victims “frozen solid”
- Grieving relatives struggle to identify victims of Greece’s worst plane crash
Update (8/16): Another one goes down.
Update II: Pundit Guy says, “Two individuals who were seen by F-16 fighter jet pilots were ID’d as crew members of the doomed flight.” NOT terrorists.
