People on Cypriot jet were alive at time of crash

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.

Nikos Kalogrias, one of a team of seven coroners, said the autopsies showed the 20 victims’ hearts and lungs were working when the Helios Airways plane crashed with 121 people aboard on Sunday. There were no survivors.