proelite
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"Nothing is working. The lights, screen ... Air India is one of the worst ..."
That said, power out in the cabin is not a good indicator.
But his quip about Air India and many of the responses to the post do give us a hint that its reputation for maintenance is not great.
Hint that power being lost can account for gear and flaps in the wrong position at take off but there are redundant systems on Boeing or any other civilian airlines.
Beyond this, there are pre-flight checks. There should be no way a power system issue wouldn't be caught.
From looks of it, they lost power right at the beginning of the climb, enough to get airborne but not enough to get high enough for redundant systems to kick in and restart the engines.
They shouldn’t have even attempted a takeoff with the aircraft in that state. Any backups are usually for when the aircraft is up in the air already, with enough altitude to attempt fixing problems not for takeoffs when it is basically a do or die situation.
The sole survivor so far -
Given the aircraft was able to get airborne it means they're well past V1 and hence cannot abort a takeoff.
What I mean is that they were having failures with multiple electrical subsystems, meaning something major was brewing, therefore shouldn’t have even been anywhere near the runway to begin with.
