I was working with NASA and was at a meeting at Johnson Space Center in the 1987. I met an engineer who took me on a tour of the Shuttle simulator. While we were there she had me sit in the pilot’s seat and asked me to turn on the emergency oxygen which at the time was located on the back of the commander’s seat out of reach of any normal human. The emergency procedures required the crew in the jump seats to turn on the Oxygen.
When they recovered the intact cabin, they discovered that all of the emergency oxygen bottles were partially empty. This led them to suspect that the astronauts had survived and they did an analysis that showed the crew experienced about 10 g’s during the explosion and then settled in to a 0 g free fall. So the crew was not only alive but were alert enough to follow emergency procedures.
When the autopsy results came some had died of blunt force trauma on impact and others drowned. You can look this up on the net as well.
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