Originally Posted by
flightleader
If the crew O2 bottle blew, what make you think it didn’t kill the captain at that very instant and left the inexperience copilot to deal with the emergency, possibly with very limited resources like lack of O2, system displays that has gone dead or even a big hole in the cockpit? Lets not forget those bottles are mounted on the port side of the nose wheel well wall and not too far aft of the captain’s right butt cheek.
The inexperienced copilot sitting in the RH seat would do the same as all of us when the explosion happened - turn away from danger.