AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION - Ghost Plane : Helios 522 [Part1/5][GR Subs]

Sunday, August 14, 2005. Larnaca Airport, in Cyprus. It’s 9:00am and low cost airline Helios Airways Flight 522 is scheduled to fly to the Greek capital, Athens, before continuing its route to Prague, in the Czech Republic. Captain Hans Mertens, the 58-year-old German pilot and his Greek co-pilot, 40-year-old Bambos Charalambous, begin the take-off. At , as the plane climbs through 12,000 feet, a warning buzzer sounds in the cockpit. Mertens radios Air Traffic Control to report he has a minor air-con