CONF iture and PJ2,
Thanks for the information on the SOPs and practcalities of FCC resets. As I said:
"but they [SOPs] would have been out of the window by 0213z"
Perhaps I should have said "might". Aside from SOPs, sad to say, there was little time left for "careful thought and action".
It is a tantalising, if understandable, feature of these WRN ("cockpit effect messages") from ACARS that their duration seems to be indeterminate.