Bearfoil wrote:-
The ACARS was a snitch after the fact.
So at 02:14:28 following the likely confirmation receipt of the Cabin Vertical Speed Advisory back at the aircraft, the aircraft commenced to break-up! Why do I say that? Well, it couldn't have been doing the things you have described without primary source power, i.e. engine or APU alternators. The ACARS may well have been a "snitch after the fact", but the fact that we have them indicates that the a/c was intact until at least the time given above.
mm43