The last 8 minutes
Also in the Horizon prog it was stated that in the last 8 minutes, a comms message was sent via Inmarsat that was similar to that sent at the start of a flight, implying that the systems had re-booted after power failure due to running out of fuel; plane dived, fuel re-distributed and there was suffficient to run the engines again
Question:
Would this start-up happen automatically, or would there have had to be intervention from someone on the Flight Deck to attempt to get an engine/generator to power up after having stopped due to running out of fuel?