Flat Spin...
Since when, in a 2 crew aircraft, does anyone think you send a Flt Crew member back to the rear galley to establish if there really is a fire?!*!
1. Any smoke on the aircraft requires both Flt Crew to go onto masks...
2. If there was a fire, he certainly wouldn't get anywhere near the rear gally for panicking PAX, and if he did, he would not get back up front.
3. If there was a fire, and therefore likely to be developing, he is far more likely to be overcome by fumes than contributing anything useful.
4. Please give our Cabin Crews SOME credit - they have far more experience of the smoke / smells in the galley area, and therefore more likely to detect a genuine abnormaility.
5. If there is a fire, or even a possibility, those 90 seconds are better spent acting as 2 crew to get the thing on the ground ASAP, as it appears this crew did.
NoD