HoustonChronicle.com - Doomed crew's actions puzzle officials

The story of the Helios Airline Flight ZU522 crash near Athens Sunday is definitely in the tangled phase, with not much making sense to experts at this point. I thought it worth noting, though, this bit from the title-linked Associated Press article by Patrick Quinn:

In a related development, police in northern Greece arrested a man who claimed to have received a telephone text message from a passenger. 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.

Augh. If the police are right, I'm glad they figured it out early like this. "Garbage in, garbage out" applies to crash investigations just like everything else.