Autopsies: Greece Passengers Died on Impact (What Happened?) [View All]

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/21/international/i123000D13.DTL

Autopsies on 118 bodies recovered from the Aug. 14 plane crash near Athens show all passengers and crew died on impact, a chief state coroner said Sunday.

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Investigators are examining reports that the plane's pilots were incapacitated by a possible loss of cabin pressure, but have not determined precisely what went wrong on the flight before it crashed.

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"The fact that the plane crashed and was not shot down is proven by data from flight recorders and the ammunition checks made on the F-16s ... An explosion in the air would have spread the wreckage over a much wider area," Voulgarakis was quoted as saying by the Chora newspaper.

"If this incident had taken place during the Olympics, the chances of it being shot down would have been extremely high."

On Saturday, state-run NET television reported that tests on traces of blood found in the wreckage have indicated that a flight attendant who reportedly received flight training was in the cockpit when the Boeing 737-300 slammed into a mountain north of Athens. The 25-year-old attendant's father said he believed his son died trying to save the flight.