The same articles says: "The pilot told us when they were getting ready to take off, the iPad screens went blank, both for the captain and copilot, so they didn

The same articles says: "The pilot told us when they were getting ready to take off, the iPad screens went blank, both for the captain and copilot, so they didn’t have the flight plan,” " (emphasis mine) What I meant is taht they didn't have a second electronic contingency plan. Probably they had to switch to paper on those flights (otherwise the impact would have been minimal)