Originally Posted by
Easy Street
Would the cabin crew have expected any communication from the flight deck following a depressurisation? I can see a terrible image of all pax and cabin crew sitting there with their oxygen masks on, waiting for the aircraft to level off. At what point would anyone think to ask whether the flight deck crew were OK, and try to gain access to the cockpit?
Assuming for a minute the depressurisation/hypoxia scenario is correct, the flight path seems to have been exactly as the cabin crew would have expected, until they descended below 10,000 feet. So for a minute or two people may have thought 'we are getting close to the ground, why are we still descending?'. The FR24 flight path then suggests the aircraft levelled off c 3000 feet above the local terrain and then a minute later .... when the 350 knot aircraft intersected the rapidly rising terrain.
I would have thought the cabin crew would have been focusing on breathing, making sure the passengers didn't do anything dumb, and hoping to get warm soon for most of the descent and letting the flight crew get on with resolving whatever problems they were dealing with.