Aeronautic...
I'd also like to know if any of you with A340 operational experience know of any reason why the passenger quoted on CBC tv described a complete power failure in the cabin (which I assume meant the lights went out - see below), one minute before his sense of the "crash" starting.
Someone spoke to this earlier in the thread. His answer was in the form of a question and, paraphrasing, was: "Isn't it the custom in European countries to turn the cabin lights off before landing?" If that were the case, pax might have confused that with a power failure.