[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.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I just saw the WSJ article saying there’s only 30 minutes of voice recording. The newer ones have 2 hours. Time to upgrade. The newer ones are probably smaller and lighter, and would save fuel.

I’m sure the pilots were indeed alerted by a flight attendant, but I still wonder if the only reason a flight attendant realized there was a problem was that a passenger alerted a flight attendant. I just can’t see how THREE flight attendants who weren’t involved in some inappropriate activity of their own, could all fail to realize that they were so long overdue to begin descent. The WSJ article also says “For a normal approach, the plane should have started slowing and descending as much as 30 minutes prior to touchdown.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125631959748904273.html