As a result, safety recommendations were made to Boeing requesting an evaluation of the dual use of the warning horn and the absence of a separate warning light for low cabin pressurization. There were several high-profile incidents nearly identical to the Helios flight involving misconfiguration of the pressurization system by the flight crew and related confusion due to the misleading dual-purpose aural warning system. Kreindler has discovered that since at least as early as 1999, Boeing was aware of increased reports on pressurization incidents in the Boeing 737 fleet. Plaintiffs are residents of the United States and citizens of Greece and Cyprus. All 121 men, women and children on board were killed. The aircraft crashed after running out of fuel. The flight crew misinterpreted the dual purpose aural warning as an indication of an aircraft configuration problem and became incapacitated from hypoxia. Alexander represents the largest group of families in the United States in litigation arising from the August 14, 2005, crash of a Boeing 737-300 model aircraft, serial number 29099, operating as Helios Airways Flight 522 near Athens, Greece.įollowing a routine maintenance check, the aircraft pressurization mode selector (PMS) was inadvertently left in the manual position, rather than the automatic position, and as a result, the aircraft failed to automatically pressurize during the climb to altitude. A Helios Airways Boeing 737 airplane like the one pictured was involved in the tragic crash
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