Wow, thank goodness they made the field. This really is a bizarre occurance for sure. Lost power to both engines AND avionics? Very, very odd. The statements from the passengers that they didn’t know anything was amiss until they landed quite hard is also odd. Even the most nieve passenger would have noticed the engines shutting off, if they had. Perhaps it was truly a power loss and not the engines shutting down.
Also an electrical failure that only seemed to have struck the cockpit? Very weird. Again, even a passenger with limited flight experience would have noticed lights turning off and the passenger vents stop blowing if the electrical problems had struck the cabin (not to mention the emergency lights would have turned on in such a situation).
There are so many different systems on an airplane I can’t imagine the calculated odds would be for an avionics failure and engine failure would be. I don’t recall any such catostrophic failure before even in cases where all engines shutdown.
Looking at the pictures it doesn’t seem that there was any post crash fire. Surely damage would have happened to the fuel tanks but no fire resulted? I would have expected something like the A340 accident in YYZ.
I haven’t seen in any reports if the crew had time to notify the airport of their emergency or if they had if there had been enough time to get emergency equipment onsite prior to their arrival.
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