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"Mayday, mayday, mayday, Helios Airways Flight 522, Athens...[unintelligible]..." "Mayday! Mayday!"

January 1, 1970

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Who: Andreas Prodromou, flight attendant aboard Helios Airways Flight 522 — Note: After the cabin depressurized mid-flight, incapacitating the flight crew (the plane continued to fly in a holding pattern as it was on autopilot) and eventually the passengers, Prodromou survived by utilizing portable oxygen supplies on the plane and gained access to the cockpit, as witnessed by F-16 pilots following the flight. The flight's CVR picked up Prodromou's mayday calls shortly after one engine flamed out

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Who: Andreas Prodromou, flight attendant aboard Helios Airways Flight 522 — Note: After the cabin depressurized mid-flight, incapacitating the flight crew (the plane continued to fly in a holding pattern as it was on autopilot) and eventually the passengers, Prodromou survived by utilizing portable oxygen supplies on the plane and gained access to the cockpit, as witnessed by F-16 pilots following the flight. The flight's CVR picked up Prodromou's mayday calls shortly after one engine flamed out