Apparently everybody ok.
3 pax and 2 c/a hospitalized minor injuries (one c/a bit more serious with broken ribs).
Athens to Mitilini can be a pretty rough sector in the winter. Journos made it seem quite serious with the a/c loosing several thousand feet in the recovery process. You can believe them if you want (I usually don’t!).
What I found quite interesting was that the crew (according to the journos) elected to return back to Athens and in the same report the air traffic controller in Mitilini said when asked that the a/c approached the island, commenced the approach but due to low cloud had no visual contact, and went around and eventually diverted to Athens.
So the crew was forced to return rather than “decided” to return.
Finally, the pax were not very happy with the silence from the flight deck. More than a few of them complained for the lack of information of what’s happening (is the a/c still in one piece, reassurance that everything is under control etc etc).
A little lesson to all of us I think. Silence from us can be scarier to the punters than any thud, smell, bang, shimmy, bump….