Two seconds before impact, the last man conscious in the cockpit of a doomed Cypriot airliner made a desperate call for help – “Mayday, Mayday” – before the plane carrying 121 people smashed into a mountain near Athens.

Elena Becatoros, Athens

Investigators trying to determine why a Cypriot passenger jet crashed into a Greek mountainside, killing 121 people, today said they had collected almost all the information they needed and hoped to have preliminary results in about 10 days.