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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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A fuselage failure big enough to cause the tail to fall off there wouldn't be any turning around...at all. In Airliners there are backup oxygen and communications so if this happened at 35k(lots of time even in a dive) I still would think the pilots would at least found away to radio a mayday at least.
Very bizarre.