I, too, heard the interviews on BBC Radio 4.
For me, they raised a couple of questions:
I think MOL said that flight deck crew could not communicate with passengers when wearing oxygen masks (I was in the shower and couldn't hear very clearly). Is this true (the claim not whether he said it!)? (Over to the experts.) If it is, how might important information be passed to passengers in such a situation?
The passenger who was interviewed raised an interesting point in that he wondered exactly how hard one needs to pull on the mask to activate the flow (without accidentally snapping the tube and rendering it useless).
P.S. MOL stated (on at least three occasions, I think) that the flight was en route to
Barcelona 
. He must have meant Girona/Gerona or Reus. I speak as someone flying to Barcelona tomorrow... on
easyJet. (Sorry, MOL - I'm confident you'll read this - but I couldn't resist
! Gift horses and all that!)