They were young but the LHS was not that young – maybe 30?
That all makes sense then 
Peter wrote:
Cabin crew were told to get seated, which is unusual.
That has to do with turbulence rather than anything else. But yes, it is unusual and if you hear that, very quickly drink your coffee and tea if you don’t want it on your pants. Or throw a blanket over the tray in front of you. Worked fine for me over Labrador.
Will_c wrote:
I wonder what would have happened if we hadn’t been deiced by ground crew that night.
A good indication what might have happened is the case of Air Florida 90. However, their biggest mistake was not to put on engine anti ice, so their EPR probes iced up and they thought they had take off power when they had not by a long run. But the deposits on the wings are killers too, even though less so on a 737 as i.e. on a Fokker 100 or a Challenger.
A bizjet pilot friend reckons they crew forgot…
Peter wrote:
A bizjet pilot
It’s good to know that yet another A320 expert confirms what was already ascertained as probable…
It apparently isn’t to do with the plane crashing but rather with engine inlet protection to avoid chunks of ice shredding the compressor blades, and that requirement is common across different jet engines.
