AFTERMATH OF GREEK PLANE CRASH CAPTURED IN PANORAMAS
by Michelle Bienias
 Photographer: Yiorgos Teo of Hellas.net – a virtual exploration of Greece.What: Cypriot Airplane Crash Near Athens, Greece - perhaps the first time that panoramic photography has been used under such circumstances.
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Reuters reported that “a Cypriot airliner carrying 121 people slammed into a mountainous area north of Athens on Sunday after apparently suffering a loss of cabin pressure or oxygen minutes before it was due to land. ‘The pilot has turned blue,’ a passenger said in a mobile text message to his cousin. ‘Cousin farewell, we're freezing.’”A Greek police spokesman said there were 115 passengers and six crew members on board, of which 59 adults and eight children were heading to Athens, with 48 continuing on to Prague. All 121 people aboard the flight were killed. When: August 14, 2005, about two hours after the crash.Where: The crash occurred in a mountainous, uninhabited area of Greece about 40 km (25 miles) north of Athens.Why: Teo shot three fullscreen panoramas of the crash site, with smoke visible in the background. “There was a fire at the scene and the bodies had not been recovered yet, so I avoided close-ups that would be shocking; the objective was to convey the experience of being in such a scene,” he says.
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