Although my version of events after a rupture of the O2 bottles differs from GBO’s, for example I think the crew are incapacitated within minutes. The autopilot has failed so any turns after the IGARI turn are explainable just to a randomly meandering aircraft.
The electrical failures are complex, and however hard we might try to explain what may have happened, in the end a damaged system will not behave in an easily explainable way.
But ultimately, with the location of the O2 bottles in the left side of the avionics bay, they do have the potential to affect all the systems we know stopped working, ACARS, COMMS, SATCOM, L TRANSPONDER, and then would also likely affect ELECTRICS, FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS, PITOT/STATIC inputs, AUTOPILOT/AUTOTHROTTLE, L AIMS, as well as cause a decompression.
Last edited by birdspeed; 16th Dec 2022 at 23:14.