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Originally Posted by JonDuke
Just for example...lets say fuselage failure and the tail fell off. That would have caused a rapid decompression. May have disabled the cabin air and/or communications. At 35,000 feet, your time of useful consciousness is 30-60 seconds before you pass out.
Some reports suggest the plane turned around. So, hypothetically, their first act, after trying to get oxygen, could have been turning the plane around. Then, 30 seconds later, they passed out, and the plane fell to the water.
All 100% speculation, but just an example of a possible scenario.
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I don't think that decompression means the ultra-redundant communications systems all go down. And wouldn't the first thing to do after getting the mask on be for one of the pilots to hit the distress button or switch or whatever? Like it is set up to be easy to do in almost any scenario, or at least that's my understanding.
Something catastrophic in the air makes sense with no communications, but then you'd also think catastrophic = debris. No debris makes you think the plane hit the water mostly intact, but then even in a decompression event they still had 30-60 seconds to get a mayday out. Or up to 3 minutes as the plane was falling out of the sky and they still had oxygen.
It's a head scratcher.