Originally Posted by
sourdough44
Just shine that flashlight on the 'peanut gyro' and steer the plane towards the nearest glow of a city. With no flight instruments +/- 50 kts is close enough.
Just offering up a procedure for loss of all electrics in the above post.
Hopefully the data recorder with be retrieved before long.
Maybe, but how has the international (non US) airline pilot community handled abnormal (and even normal a'la the SFO 777 ricochet) situations over the last few years ?
A LOT of pilot error out there. Of course, if the cockpit was filled with smoke and even possibly the O2 was compromised, it could have been just a bleak situation like Swissair or Valuejet.