Originally Posted by
double_barrel
I am surprised that there is no comment on the evidence that the cabin crew were trying to contact the cockpit but were ignored as the flight crew focussed on apparently more urgent things..
As I read it (both the narrative and the CVR transcript) the cabin crew made one single attempt at interphone contact at about much the same time as there was a discussion going between the captain and the relief F/O about the gathering of information (
..) The indication on the Flight deck of an incoming call would have been a short chime...”bing”....(and the first one of our sensory systems that degrades under highworkload/stress is.......) and a latched “ ....call” message on the EICAS, which given the circumstances would perhaps have been one of several messages displayed, some of a more eye catching nature than others ...I can only guess the...”...call” got missed with everything else that was going on....