Contributed by: filbert Monday, August 15 2005 @ 06:49 AM CST
Oxygen loss probed in crash of Cypriot airliner[*1] in Greece:
A man whose cousin was a passenger said he received a cell phone text message minutes before the crash. ”He told me the pilots were unconscious. … He said: “Farewell, cousin, here we’re frozen,” Sotiris Voutas said — indicating the plane was cold, a sign of decompression.
There are no good ways to die, but this sounds more horrible than most. Eerily reminiscent of Payne Stewart’s demise[*2] .