[GovernmentShrinker]

I’ve been wondering about the flight attendants. There were 3 of them on this flight. Normally flight attendants are very aware of the flight schedule, because they need to finish drink service and trash pick-up before descent begins. How could it take so long for any of the flight attendants to notice that the “prepare for landing” procedure still hadn’t started, well after the time where the plane was supposed to be on the ground? And the passengers — usually there are a number of passengers on board who are very focused on landing time, due to needing to catch connecting flights, etc. I’m wondering if any of the flight attendants actually did notice the overshoot, or if one of them was alerted by a passenger who called the attendant over to inquire about why they weren’t descending yet.

[Scythian]

Maybe all the flight attendants were in the cock pit?

[freepersup]

Per a FOX news report running in the background, one or more of the flight attendants made contact with the cockpit occupants, and this is what brought the aircrew out of their ‘oversight or slumber.’ The flight voice data recorder (different than the a/c data recorder) loops every 30 minutes, and apparently investigators were able to discern the above attempt at contact with the aircrew by the flight attendant(s) and in turn the aircrew's anomalous behavior. Uh oh spaghetti o’s.