<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I dont remember ever hearing about this.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71205820/helios-airways-flight-522/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71205820/helios-airways-flight-522/</a></p>
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<p dir="auto">At 11:05 a.m. on August 14, 2005, two Greek Air Force F-16 fighter jets were met with a bone-chilling sight. As the fighter jets approached Helios Airways Flight 522, which had been circling in a continuous loop over Athens in what some thought might be an impending terrorist attack, the pilots peered through the passenger aircraft’s windows into its main cabin and cockpit. Everyone inside the passenger jet appeared to be slumped in their chairs while wearing oxygen masks—including the pilot and the co-pilot. For more than an hour, Nicosia air traffic control had tried to hail the pilots to no avail, and now they knew why.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The Boeing 737—and the 121 people on board—only had one hope, a flight attendant named Andreas Prodromou, who had remained conscious thanks to a portable oxygen supply. While Prodromou held a U.K. Commercial Pilot License, he had no training in landing an aircraft of this size. Reports from the F-16 crew state that Prodromou briefly waved to the F-16 pilots from the cockpit window, tried to wake the Boeing’s pilots, and even sent a few mayday messages, but he was too late. The plane engine’s soon flamed out and the aircraft began its deadly descent, crashing into hills near the Greek village of Grammatiko just after noon local time. No one survived, leaving bewildered officials and grieving families to pick through the pieces.</p>
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]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/39602/a-boeing-737-flew-itself-for-2-hours-before-crashing.-only-one-person-remained-conscious.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:37:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/39602.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 02:00:27 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:42:23 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I'll tell you, I might not have been trained to land a jet that big but I'd sure as hell give it the old college try.</p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362418</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362418</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:42:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sun, 10 May 2026 02:06:29 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Yeah what a nightmare for him. I didn’t watch the video above but the comments imply it covers his perspective, sadly.</p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362404</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362404</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[89th]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 02:06:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sat, 09 May 2026 14:46:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<blockquote>
<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/mik" aria-label="Profile: Mik">@<bdi>Mik</bdi></a> <a href="/post/362367">said</a>:</p>
<p dir="auto">Never heard that story.  I suppose if one must die in a plane crash that's the way to go, completely unaware.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Except for that one flight attendant.  What a terrible last couple of hours for him!!</p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362379</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362379</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[taiwan_girl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:46:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sat, 09 May 2026 11:44:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Never heard that story.  I suppose if one must die in a plane crash that's the way to go, completely unaware.</p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362367</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362367</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mik]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 11:44:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sat, 09 May 2026 03:29:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">"...concluded that the crew had failed to notice that the cabin pressurization system was set to "manual" during takeoff checks. A ground engineer had set it to "manual" to conduct testing before the flight, but had most likely forgotten to restore it to "auto" afterward..."</p>
<p dir="auto">Yikes.</p>
<p dir="auto">Sadly it seems so many accidents are because of one "simple" oversight.</p>
<p dir="auto">BTW here's a youtube video about it:</p>
<p dir="auto"></p><div class="embed-wrapper"><div class="embed-container"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bpyLbJAU464" frameborder="0" width="854" height="480" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpyLbJAU464" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Link to video</a><p></p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362362</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362362</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[89th]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 03:29:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to A Boeing 737 Flew Itself for 2 Hours Before Crashing. Only One Person Remained Conscious. on Sat, 09 May 2026 02:17:05 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Me neither</p>
]]></description><link>https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362360</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/362360</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jon-nyc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 02:17:05 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>