Around 40 Irish soccer fans could be left stranded in Cyprus for up to two days after they refused to travel home on a Helios Airways jet tonight due to safety fears.

An airliner carrying 100 people crashed near a Peruvian jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing 41 people.

Brian Church, Athens

Director of Consumer Affairs Carmel Foley has urged passengers affected by delays on Helios Airways flights from Cyprus to seek compensation under new EU legislation.

Hundreds of exhausted holidaymakers arrived at Dublin airport today after they were stranded in Cyprus for more than 36 hours.

Around 150 passengers are still stranded in Cyprus after their flight to Dublin was cancelled yesterday.

Two hundred passengers who were stranded at Larnaca Airport are now on their way to Ireland.

A Helios Airways flight from Dublin Airport to Larnaca in Cyprus has been cancelled. The flight was due to leave just before midnight.

The chief Athens coroner today said toxicological tests on the remains of the co-pilot, three flight attendants and two passengers from the crashed Cypriot jetliner showed they were not rendered unconscious by breathing carbon monoxide.

Derek Gatopoulos, Athens

Peter Woodman

THE co-pilot and a flight attendant were among dozens of people still alive when a Cypriot airliner plunged into the mountains north of Athens, deepening the mystery over what incapacitated the flight carrying 121 people.

Autopsies on a total of 20 bodies from the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece have shown they were alive when the plane went down, an Athens coroner said today.

The Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece may have suffered a sudden loss of cabin pressure at high altitude, causing temperatures and oxygen levels to plummet and leaving everyone aboard suffocating and freezing to death, experts said yesterday.

BLACKENED bodies, tattered luggage and smouldering debris lay scattered among the pine trees in a scenic Greek valley after the Helios Airways flight slammed into a mountainside and filled the air with acrid smoke.

GRIEVING relatives, many black-clad and weeping, arrived at a central Athens morgue yesterday to identify the remains of some of the 121 people - including 10 families - killed in Greece’s worst plane crash.

POLICE in Cyprus raided the offices of Helios Airways in the city of Larnaca yesterday, a day after one of the company’s passenger jets slammed into a mountainside near Athens, killing all 121 people on board.

IRISH airlines recently adopted new safety measures designed to prevent an accident similar to the one believed to have caused the death of 121 people on board the Cypriot airliner which crashed on Sunday.

Police today raided the offices of Helios Airways in the coastal city of Larnaca, near Cyprus international airport, a day after one of the company’s passenger jets crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people on board.

Grieving relatives, many black-clad and weeping, arrived at a central Athens morgue today by bus, taxi or on foot to try to identify the remains of some of the 121 people – including 10 families – killed in Greece’s worst plane crash.

Two black-box recorders from the Cypriot airliner that crashed outside Athens will be sent to France for expert examination, officials said today, to determine why the plane went down – possibly with all 121 on board already dead.

Greece’s worst plane crash, in which 121 people died yesterday, appeared to have been caused by a sudden drop in oxygen.

ACCIDENT investigators will be scouring the wreckage of the doomed Helios Airways flight that crashed near Athens for clues as to what might have caused the disaster.

A CYPRIOT airliner carrying 121 people into a hill near the ancient city of Marathon yesterday, killing all passengers and the six crew members on board.

Blackened bodies, tattered luggage and smouldering debris lay scattered among the pine trees in a scenic Greek valley today after a Helios Airways flight slammed into a mountainside and filled the air with acrid smoke.

A Cypriot airliner ploughed into a hill north of Athens today, killing all 121 people on board, Greek officials said.