Helios Flight 522: How a Single Switch Killed 121 Passengers
On the 14th August, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 collided with mountainside due to fuel deprivation, making it one of the worst airplane disasters in European history. Let’s look at how it happened.
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✦ With special thanks ✦
Tasos Fotakis, for the Helios Crash Site Memorial footage:
11Aviation, for allowing me to use their own private footage of the crash:
Mentour Pilot, one of best technical explanations from a pilot’s perspective:
Lefkosv, for the F-16 voiceover ()
Jesse, for very meticulously and patiently recreating the accident in XPlane 11 ()
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✦ Chapters ✦
00:00 Intro
01:25 A Loud Banging Noise
03:49 A Catastrophic Chain of Events
09:20 Hypoxia
11:50 Panic on the Ground
13:38 A Man in a Blue Vest
16:23 May Day
19:19 Ghosts on the Plane
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