Please forgive my ignorance about 744 systems...
... but I was under the impression that a 744 could happily handle a loss of all cabin power?
My impression was that there is a small set of clockwork flight instruments up front (but you'd need to do a bit of old-fashioned navigation), and the donks would continue to turn...
But I guess you'd still need some elec power to run the fuel pumps...
So what's the story? What systems run off the batteries/inverters etc. and what can run independently?
I'm not trying to be sensationalist, but a comment in the press has been made that this could've been nasty if it'd happened way out over the drink somewhere. Anyone care to give the real story?