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I found your reply interesting and probably a "proper acount" of what happened compared to what the Journo's had been printing.
Just to hopefully answer one of your points.
about this time a noise started and the strange smell appeared, around 30 seconds later, pop go the oxy masks
That will most likely will have been they start of the small oxygen generators starting for your masks which then produce a funny smell.
Question is.. Wwill you be flying with our wonderfull airline again? and how did you find they crew