It's also unlikely to be true. If they can hear the pilot trying to break the cockpit door down on the CVR, then there is little doubt that most passengers on

It's also unlikely to be true. If they can hear the pilot trying to break the cockpit door down on the CVR, then there is little doubt that most passengers on an A319 can also hear/see same. Maybe they didn't start screaming until it was obvious that they were going to crash, but they knew that the captain couldn't get back into the cockpit long before that.