vittorio66:
This could explain why the flight did not any evasive action to the weather conditions and also the way it impacted the water. This is also coerent with no preparation to any emergency.
ACARS are only maintenance messages. So, they won't tell us a lot about what the crew did or did not. Possibly some messages were triggered by crew troubleshooting after 0210. But the aicraft is also fully monitored. Then, until the SATCOM failed, we should be aware that no decompression happened and no poisonous gas was released in the cabin.
"No preparation for an emergency" is not exactly what the BEA mentioned from what was recovered so far. The point was that no life jacket was discovered "inflated" (implying no crash survivor), and this point was particularly weak as nobody would inflate its life jacket until clearing off from the aircraft. It seems way too early to extrapolate the situation of the aircraft passengers and crew before it crashed without knowing a lot more about the forensic evidences or recovering the CVR/FDR.
S~
Olivier