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Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: Lack of oxygen would have made passengers too drowsy to know fate

Passengers on Germanwings Flight 4U9525 may not have realised their fate as they dropped from the sky.

During any decompression of the cabin, the passengers and crew could have suffered from hypoxia, that brings on dizziness and even laughter as oxygen levels rapidly fall.

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