SMS from Crashed Cypriot Plane A Hoax

Politics | August 16, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00

The man who claimed that he has received an a telephone text message from a passenger on board of the Cypriot airliner which crashed north of Athens, has been arrested.

Police identified the man as Nektarios-Sotirios Voutas, 32. He had announced that his cousin, who he identified as Kostas Petridis, was on board and had sent him a cellphone text message minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."

The report that the plane was cold was taken as a sign of decompression - one of the possible explanations authorities have given for the crash, which was Greece's deadliest.

But police in Thessaloniki said they had determined he was lying, and there was no Petridis on the Cypriot government's official list of victims.

Meanwhile, officials said they had found only the exterior container of the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed plane. The device's internal components were ejected from the container when the plane crashed into a mountainous region.

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