A Cyprus-based Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 has impacted a hill near Athens with the loss all 121 persons on board
 
Media reports suggest the reason was a "slow decompression" that incapacitated both pilots when cruising around 34,000'

There may have been attempts by cabin crew to fly the passenger jet - 2 Greek fighters intercepted the aircraft and noticed two persons moving about in the cockpit other than the incapacitated flight crew
 
"We can confirm that the aircraft that experienced the decompression problem (before) was the aircraft that was involved in this accident" - Helios statement

A West Caribbean Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-82 en-route from Panama to the French Caribbean island of Martinique impacted the ground near the Venezuela-Colombia border with the loss all 160 persons on board

Media reports have both of the jet engines failing on the MD-82 with the captain then attempting an emergency landing on a cattle property which turned out to be unsuccessful

The Archerfield Warbirds were also on standby outside the main terminal prepared to participate in VP-Day activities (was VJ in some early articles after the war) commemorating the end of War with Japan 60 years ago