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Impact killed all on Cypriot jet, coroner says
By Times wire
Published August 22, 2005
ATHENS, Greece - Autopsies on 118 bodies recovered from the Aug. 14 plane crash near Athens show all passengers and crew died on impact, a chief state coroner said Sunday.
Coroner Fillippos Koutsaftis said work would continue in an effort to identify bodies damaged beyond recognition.
Helios Flight 522 had been flying from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens with 115 passengers and six crew when it crashed near Grammatiko, about 25 miles north of Athens, in Greece's worst air disaster. Three bodies are missing.
Investigators have not determined precisely what went wrong on the flight before it crashed.
PLANE CRASH IN VENEZUELA: Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that fuel ran out between Panama and Martinique, but they are considering a range of potential causes, Venezuelan emergency agency chief Col. Antonio Rivero said Sunday.
Iran's president knocks Europeans on talks
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line president scolded Europeans on Sunday, accusing them of being willing to sell their goods to Iranians while at the same time trying to strangle Tehran's nuclear program.
Some legislators, meanwhile, criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Cabinet nominees, with one lawmaker asserting that the new president's proposed government had autocratic leanings.
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