Tying buses together is a manual operation. All indications are that the pilots didn't have enough time to get that far in the checklist. It's also not that im

Tying buses together is a manual operation. All indications are that the pilots didn't have enough time to get that far in the checklist. It's also not that important to restore AC power. The standby bus automatically brings the standby instruments online in the event of a failure, and not that hard to restore the majority of instruments by connecting the main DC bus to batteries. The battery has enough power for 30min of flying, or a full hour if you have the dual-battery option. > They may have had a more severe failure. While we only have evidence of bird strikes on one engine, the actions of the pilots seem to suggest that they lost both engines. They were rushing to get back to a runway.