Boy, five, was alive after Cypriot plane crashed

Derek Gatopoulos, Athens

A post-mortem examination on the boy's body which was found burned indicated he had breathed in soot from a fire sparked by the plane crash.

The boy "did not die instantly after the crash". "He was alive," said Nikos Kalogrias, part of a six-member team of coroners investigating Sunday's Helios Airways crash that left 121 people dead.