MISSING MH370: Fishermen find life raft near PD

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24. Here is a reference to the battery power

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC4QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartcockpit.com%2Fdownload.php%3Fpath%3Ddocs%2F%26file%3DB777-Electrical.pdf&ei=0HggU8_hNIj4oASc_IKYBg&usg=AFQjCNHF8FKmsuyAQjLCZaQvJxH40g20Vg&sig2=b0Pe3uF6sDC3RdurkbIjQQ&bvm=bv.62788935,d.cGU&cad=rja

From page 5: "the standby musses transfer to batter power if normal AC power is lost"

I think this is what the CNN guy was talking about. This sounds like a battery system just for the fly-by-wire cockpit systems, not for the whole aircraft. He said it was good for about an hour.

For my scenario to be correct, there had to have been a problem that knocked out the power from the two engines, the APU, and probably from the ram turbine as well. That is obviously a very bad situation, and could have been an explosion, but one that didn't bring the craft down immediately.

There was a case a few years back where pilots lost almost all controls for their 747. I think all they had was a throttle control for each engine. By adjusting the relative power to the engines, they were able to control direction and altitude for awhile -- a half hour as I recall. But I think that did end up crashing. The point is that these were very, very experienced pilots and they might have been able to fly a badly damaged aircraft for an hour.