Derek Gatopoulos, Athens

A five-year-old boy who was aboard the Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece was still alive – but only for a second – after the plane slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens, a coroner said today.

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.