Ridiculous for the pilots not to report anything like this happening. Also ridiculous that so many theories floating around that all the flight attendants and passengers were so sound alseep.
We don’t really care much about letting all you folks know what is happening until after we have a situation under control. That includes ATC. It is LAST on our checklists.
not ridiculous if the assumption holds that the fire itself is the cause for lack of coms. Electrical panel fires in aircraft are not uncommon. and the theory is that the fire was burning these circuits up therefore unusable.