little is known of what happened in the minutes after the breakup. the crew cabin was still intact as it started falling, since it was built to be strong. the official report into the disaster says that the crew survived the first breakup and that at least three people were still alive. they were able to move switches which required a cover to be pulled off before they could be moved, probably when they tried to regain control of the craft, as well as activate their air packs. the crew cabin did not have any kind of parachute, and it smashed into the ocean after falling for 2 minutes and 45 seconds at roughly . any crew that might have survived the first break up died instantly with more than 200 times the force of normal gravity. this is like going from 0 to over and then slowing back down to 0 all within a second.