If that slide/raft gets inspected it's likely that it can be determined if it was disconnected by human intervention or not. You can't say from the photo. Im sure the authorities are looking at this aspect. It can provide important clues.
As I said, slide raft was attached to the floor brackets as the door is armed during the flight. When you open the door in the armed mode slideraft is gonna deploy automatically. But we don't know if the door was opened by human intervention or due to structural damage.
Cabin crew are trained for such situation but for that the aircraft needed to float for a little while so they can take the necessary actions to evacuate, board the slide/raft and disconnected.
I don't want to speculate at this early stage, we need more info to establish it was an attempt of an unplanned ditching.
Last edited by skytrax; 31st Dec 2014 at 07:56.