

The appellate court upheld the lower court's ruling, saying the judge had properly weighed all the relevant public and private interests against the plaintiffs' first choice of venue. The representatives for Karakostas, however, reserved the right to challenge that dismissal on appeal. Most of the wrongful death lawsuits against Boeing in the United States were dismissed, after a federal judge in Illinois agreed that courts in Cyprus and Greece were the appropriate venues. The report also cited several secondary causes of the accident, including plane defects, poor management and inadequate oversight. They based their claims on an Accident Safety Board report, which found that crew members ignored three warnings that the aircraft was not pressurizing.

The relatives and estate of Nicos Karakostas, a passenger killed in the crash, sued Boeing in Illinois Federal Court. The crew and passengers lost consciousness and asphyxiated, and the plane crashed near Athens when it ran out of fuel. Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover to Athens, Greece, that crashed on 14 August 2005, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board. 14, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 failed to properly pressurize after takeoff on a flight from Cyprus to Greece. CHICAGO (CN) - Relatives of a passenger killed when a Boeing 737 failed to properly pressurize and crashed near Athens, Greece, should file their claims for damages in Greece or Cyprus, the 7th Circuit ruled.
