*** mm43 and Hyperveloce ***
No need to switch off IFE when the only electrical power source is the APU. Automatic load shedding takes cares of that. IFE and galleys are on top of the priority list for load shed.
Note that from 1825 on no flight ID and no data-2 ACARS traffic were transmitted during the various handshakes and phone calls from ground. Conspiracists will of course deduce that some bad guy found a way to prevent it. Non-conspiracists may think that the link between the data source in the a/c (AIMS or whatever it is) and the satcom equipment was somehow crippled.
Last edited by DJ77; 6th Sep 2015 at 21:34.
Reason: Corrected a typo