Probably just some lone paranoid passenger afraid of crashing.
Question to anyone...
I haven’t flown over a large body of water in several decades.
In the past, the seat cushions doubled as flotation devices.
As I recall, so many passengers in test flights failed to get their vests on correctly or in a timely manner that American carriers gave up on life vests.
Has this changed?
I’ve crossed the Atlantic forty or fifty times....and yet to see some paranoid guy with a vest on. It just doesn’t happen.
In this scenario....it’d take roughly ten seconds for a guy to grasp the situation, reach under the seat, and don the life jacket. I would have my doubts that the plane disintegrated in the air....leaving no time for a guy to grasp the situation and don the jacket.
Uh dude....paranoid? They DID crash. Maybe he was prophetic.....