Originally Posted by SyGunson

The issue is if both pilots were already preoccupied with an electrical failure unaware of a fire at first and more intent on turning their heavily laden plane back to Singapore or wherever, then a new emergency develops, ie fire, so now they are immediately distracted by a new emergency...

And then as this cascades into a third emergency explosive decompression.

Suddenly the cockpit is a hurricane of escaping cabin air, papers flying everywhere, condensation mist, blow torch like flames, air evacuating from the lungs of pilots who have to force breath, temperature drops to minus 50, no oxygen in their masks which takes God knows how long to don... followed by confusion at not being able to get air and very, very quickly through the fog of their own confusion they become dizzy and faint and then the lights go out in the brains.

That is the reality.