'Mayday! Mayday!' appeal from Cypriot jet two seconds before crash

OH this just creates a whole new bad sleep for me.

'Mayday! Mayday!' appeal from Cypriot jet two seconds before crash: "The report appears to confirm initial suspicions that people
aboard the Helios Airways plane were incapacitated by a loss of
cabin pressure early in the flight at about 34,000 feet and that
someone tried to save the flight shortly before it crashed.

� � � �On the day of the crash, two Greek air force F-16 fighter planes
were scrambled to intercept the flight shortly before the accident.

� � � �Pilots reported seeing the co-pilot slumped over the controls,
apparently unconscious, and the pilot not in his seat. On their
second pass by the airliner, the F-16 pilots saw two people in the
cockpit, apparently trying to take control of the plane.

According to the report issued Monday, a man wearing an oxygen
mask, believed to be 25-year-old flight attendant Andreas
Prodromou, tried to steer the plane for the last 10 minutes and
contact air-traffic control authorities.

In his first appeal, he cried ''Mayday!'' three times %u2014 but the
plane's communications had apparently been set to the wrong
frequency, Tsolakis said.

It remains unclear how the would-be rescuer stayed conscious.

The Helios flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens ran out of
fuel before crashing near the scenic village of Grammatiko, 25
miles north of Athens, the report said.

The plane crashed in Greece after circling for more than an hour
in a holding pattern above the Aegean Sea island of Kea, southeast
of Athens International Airport.

''There are indications of technical problems in the
pressurization system ... There is proof that the engines of the
plane stopped working because the fuel supply was exhausted, and
that this was the final cause of the crash,'' the two-page report
said."