article_snippet: I dare not imagine the horror of parents who tried to protect their babies in this airplane.'
article_snippet: But a veteran A320 pilot has said that the passengers would have been unlikely to know that the passengers were going to die.
article_snippet: If anything, a veteran A320 pilot said, the plane would have been filled with 'eerie silence'. '
article_snippet: It is likely the oxygen masks were released, a veteran A320 pilot said, and if passengers did not put passengers on quickly enough passengers may have lost consciousness.
article_snippet: There also may have been 'unpleasant noises and wind effects', which may have caused some alarm.
article_snippet: passengers was probably sitting there waiting for the pilot to complete the descent,' a veteran A320 pilot said. '
article_snippet: There was probably no indication to passengers of what the end was going to be. '
article_snippet: There may have been some panic when passengers saw the mountains coming up through the windows, but it would have been brief. '
highlights_snippet: But a British aviation expert said a British aviation expert is unlikely passengers knew unlikely passengers were going to die .
  
highlights_snippet: Instead, a British aviation expert said, the plane would have been filled with 'eerie silence' 