RRamjet: Yes, but is requires no hydraulics for the flight controls, except to extend flaps, and has pretty straightforward systems, about like its forerunner
, but longer range. Maybe the AC crosstie system was overloaded or there was a generator bus fault etc?
THe report on the total failure was educational. Maybe you saw my complaints in another totpic about the C-130. Do our Air Force components still have NO standby ADI in the C-130 E/H etc? My father suffered two total elec. failures (C-130 A and E models) in night IMC.
Without top-notch career Flight Engineers, they would all be dead. Unless I'm wrong about the equipment nowadays, the people in charge of the Pentagon programs and funding are either too stupid or too cheap to care about actual flight safety on those series? Or were too distracted over a few decades?