Greek Plane With 34 Aboard Crashes
An Olympic Airways twin-prop airliner with 34 Greeks aboard crashed into a mountainside on the eastern Aegean island of Samos on Thursday, and an early search reported no sign of survivors.
The twin-engine, British-built Short aircraft was on a domestic flight from Salonica, in northern Greece, to Samos, off Turkey’s western Anatolian coast, with 31 passengers, including an infant, and three crew members.
The plane gave no sign of trouble before disappearing from radar screens, officials said.
Transport and Communications Minister Nikos Gelestathis said the plane’s wreckage, bloody clothes and broken baggage were found on Krounies Mountain by commandos. Helicopters with medical teams were ordered to fly to the rugged terrain to search for survivors.
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