8. Helios Airways

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The Airline Helios Airways was founded in Cyprus in 1999, existed for 7 years and ceasing operation in 2006. Helios was based in Larnaca with it's Callsign being HELIOS. They have had one of the most mysterious Mysteries in Aviation HISTORY. Flight 522 from Helios Airways crashed near Athens after a rotary switch for the cabin pressure control was set to ''manual'' instead of the normal ''automatic''. Because of that, everybody on board became unconscious and the plane flew like the autopilot wanted it to. The Plane flew a few laps in a holding pattern because it should have landed in athens but by that time, nobody was conscious so the plane couldn't be landed. The kerosene was completely depleted, which ultimately caused the plane to crash.

Helios' Fleet in 2005

1x Boeing 737 300

2x Boeing 737-800s

Planes Helios also operated before ceasing operation

another 1x 737-800 (2005)

1x 737-400 (2000-2001)

1x Airbus A319-112 leased from Lotus Air (2005)

1x Airbus A320-211 leased from MenaJet (2005)

They had not that much planes to be honest, the next Airline will definitely have more.

I liked Helios tbh... Their slogan was nice too. „Here comes the sun" was the slogan... Btw You can try to guess the airline that comes next in the comments. That was it from me and bye bye.

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