Scenes of death and devastation in valley where plane crashed

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.

Constantinos Michas, a resident of Grammatiko near the ancient city of Marathon, was one of the first on the scene.

“I took my car and went straight to the mountain ... I saw about 80 dead bodies, some were children. There were some body parts but most were just as their mother made them.”