Originally Posted by jugofpropwash View Post
For those who say that it should be possible for pilots to don their masks in less than 5 seconds... How about in the event of a windscreen failure? Now you're trying to get that mask on with a massive headwind hitting you, extreme cold, everything blowing around the cockpit, possibly things frosting up from the temperature change... Even assuming that the mask isn't ripped out of your hand by the decompression, I don't think that anyone is going to get one on in 5 seconds.
PN
True, but if that were the case the aircraft would not have descended.
Is the Airbus fitted with ADM ? in which case a descent would have been initiated