Originally Posted by GobonaStick
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Isolating all nonessential systems is also very close to the top of the 'smoke in the cabin' checklist
An hour after you've decided you're not flying to Beijing?
We don't have an exact time for when the power went off. We only know when power to the Satcom terminal resumed: 18:25 UTC.
The previous Satcom terminal handshake was at 17:07 UTC.
There was no response to Boeings Ground to Air ACARS request at 18:03 UTC so we can most likely guess that the power to the Satcom terminal was off then.
That leaves a period of 56 minutes where we have no idea if the Satcom terminal was powered or not.