O2 and Cypriot airliner crash

John Gaquin wrote:
"Bob Moore" wrote in message

My thoughts on yesterday's accident.


My thoughts were tending in the same direction, Bob. Speculation on the
availability of O2, or the system integrity, is fine, but the first and most
obvious question to me was as to why the airplane was still at altitude.
Job 1, superceding all others, is to get the craft to breathable air. What
was going on? All it takes is one body in the cockpit to initiate the
descent.

The news tonight said the airliner was on autopilot, in climb mode,which
it continued in until finally reaching it's service ceiling. My
understanding is Job 1 is to put on an oxygen mask, which, if it failed
to deliver oxygen, might mean they never get to Job 2 (descend).


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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA