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Text Message Was a Hoax
Police Arrest Man Who Sent 'We're Freezing'
ATHENS (Aug. 15) - Greek police on Monday arrested a man they said had hoaxed TV stations by saying he had received a mobile phone message from a cousin on an airliner which said the passengers were freezing cold shortly before it crashed.
The man - identified as Nektarios-Sotirios Voutas, 32 - told Greek television stations that his cousin on board the plane sent him a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."
But authorities determined he was lying, and arrested him on charges of dissemination of false information.
"The man did not receive any message from the plane and has been charged with spreading false information," a police spokesman said.
The Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed into mountains near Athens on Sunday, killing all 115 passengers and six crew.
Police said they spotted the hoax when they realized that the name of the passenger who had supposedly sent the messsage was not on the airliner's passenger list
Police Arrest Man Who Sent 'We're Freezing'
ATHENS (Aug. 15) - Greek police on Monday arrested a man they said had hoaxed TV stations by saying he had received a mobile phone message from a cousin on an airliner which said the passengers were freezing cold shortly before it crashed.
The man - identified as Nektarios-Sotirios Voutas, 32 - told Greek television stations that his cousin on board the plane sent him a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash saying: "Farewell, cousin, here we're frozen."
But authorities determined he was lying, and arrested him on charges of dissemination of false information.
"The man did not receive any message from the plane and has been charged with spreading false information," a police spokesman said.
The Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed into mountains near Athens on Sunday, killing all 115 passengers and six crew.
Police said they spotted the hoax when they realized that the name of the passenger who had supposedly sent the messsage was not on the airliner's passenger list