Re: Sign of the times
AFAIK a total power failure has never happened in a modern fly-by-wire aircraft and it's not something you'd train for. It has been done in simulators though.
But it's very unlikely to happen - if everything else fails (plane runs completely out of fuel, for example), there is a Ram Air Turbine deployed. Basically a small wind turbine attached to the aircraft to power the most important systems.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
