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TIL Everyone on Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005) passed out due to hypoxia. A flight attendant woke up and tried to control plane but failed. The autopilot kept the plane fly nearly 3hrs until the fuel ran out and crash, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. This known as “Ghost Flight”

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