The aircraft was ferrying Calgary, Frobisher Bay, Keflavik, Birmingham, Dubrovnik, Luxor, Muscat, Male (Maldives). After departing Birmingham, it was somewhere over Kent on its 6hr 10min trip to Dubrovnik when it suffered an electrical fire in the cockpit, losing all lights and all electrically powered instruments. The flames were just a couple of feet from the auxiliary long-range fuel tanks that were fitted in the cabin! The crew managed to extinguish the fire and inform LATCC of their situation by handheld transceiver, with navigation being accomplished by handheld GPS. A torch was used to view the attitude indicator and altimeter.
Post from a John Dyer post at flightglobal.com