Originally Posted by
rickair7777
True but the masks would drop and the folks in back wouldn't know if the air was OK or not. Most would put on the masks.
Rick, since we're considering the scenario of a carefully planned event by someone who knew the aircraft well, the perpetrator could have disarmed the automatic deployment of the O2 masks by pulling the cb and used the direct manual control of the outflow valves to dump the pressure quickly.
Also, even if the masks dropped they would only provide 15 minutes or so and they would be confined to their seats. I'm gonna call this scenario "plausible".