Quote Originally Posted by ZERO View Post
You would think there would have been a transmission like, were going down...
I don't even think they had enough time to fully understand the problem. Maybe 20 seconds, judging by their altitude and eye-witness accounts. They say the aircraft was nearly vertical on it's way down... that's a very fast descent. I think even 20 seconds is more than they had.

It's unfortunate, things can take a turn for the worst very quickly.