some really odd stuff here.
does jet blue have passenger oxygen masks that prevent smoke inhalation ( I doubt it)?
did the pilots tell the flight attendants to drop the masks?
did the cabin altitude ever exceed 8000'? 10,000', 12500', 14000'?
everyone seems hell bent for leather to evacuate down the slides. if the plane isn't on fire (and it sure looks like it doesn't have fire damage) why jump out and risk injury?
I looked up the smoke checklist for the A320 and NO WHERE does it say the passengers are to go on oxygen.
I hope we can all have a nice talk about this, and if anyone has REAL DATA about procedures that would be nice to include.
And to those who don't know (not you pilots) passenger oxygen is for supplemental breathing and you would suck smoke into the little mask if you used it.
PILOT oxygen masks of course are a very different type and would be used in the case of smoke.