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Originally Posted by Peanut
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Yes, your correct. Obviously there is quite a bit of technical knowledge in that piece, but there are also some huge holes in knowledge or understanding. It's like watching a movie where if you ignore some basic logical misses then it is believable.
The most glaring omissions are that, as I mentioned above, the warnings for cabin pressurization will occur regardless of how slow the leak is....slow or fast doesn't matter. Warnings are triggered between 10000' and 13000' feet, and even if it sat just below those thresholds, very few people would even notice it, I doubt anyone would lose consciousness, and nobody would die at those altitudes. The idea that the pilots would be hypoxically confused before the warnings started is ludicrous.
The idea that they did not get oxygen masks on a timely manner is possible, which is the basis for both the Payne Stewart Lear crash, or the Helios 737 crash.
I'm not dismissing pressurization and crew incapacitation as possible causes, just that some of the premises in that article are not correct.