[Pearls Before Swine]

These guys are pilots and they don't notice that their ears are popping? If they notice, they don't know what it means and don't take the plane off of its autopilot climb? And the reason the captain leaves the cockpit is just to turn off the alarm?

Wow.

[konaice]

That part sounds purely speculative to me, because there is no way they could know this. The Voice recorders only hold 30 minutes, and would have over written that part of the tape. Remember the intercept happened 20 minutes prior to the crash, and nobody was seen till the last few minutes trying to get the aircraft to descend. That leaves only 10 mintues of tape to accomodate all the chatter for the last two hours.