article_snippet: None of they can speak for None of them, nor can any of the flight's six crew members.
article_snippet: By this point, passengers would be OK to unbuckle, head to the restroom or get passengers bags out of the overhead bin.
article_snippet: A seemingly innocuous act changed everything: The aircraft's pilot had to use the restroom, according to Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, telling the co-pilot that the co-pilot was stepping out.
article_snippet: It's possible that passengers saw the captain in the cabin, going to or from the restroom.
article_snippet: passengers also could have noticed that The aircraft was going down -- even though passengers were about a half-hour into a nearly two-hour flight, with the Alps ahead of passengers.
article_snippet: If passengers didn't notice that fall, passengers might have caught wind of what was happening at the front of the plane.
article_snippet: Did the passengers hear this commotion upfront?
article_snippet: It's hard to imagine the passengers didn't.
article_snippet: And if that wasn't reason enough to cause worry, the passengers just had to look outside -- at the mountain chain that should have been far below the passengers instead of getting closer and closer and closer.
article_snippet: Still, even if the passengers didn't know the passengers at the time, all it took was eight minutes for a seemingly normal flight to become a nightmare.