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Originally Posted by fingpilot
It's now been established that that system was circuit breakered (in the E & E compartment) after it's 5th hourly ping. What that really means is that the airplane probably flew even longer than is now being reported.
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For those of you who don't know what this means, the "EE" (electrical) racks are under the passenger compartment floor, just behind the nose wheel well in front, and just in front of the aft pressure bulkhead in back. Neither is meant to be normally accessible in flight. There is a hatch in the cockpit floor through which we gain access to the forward EE rack at times, but we normally get to it through the forward cargo bay, which we access through the forward cargo door - below the passenger deck. Kind of a PIA in flight. The aft EE rack is not accessible during flight at all - it sits behind the center bulkheads that effectively divide the lower cargo deck into front and rear halves.
So, in other words, if someone accessed even the forward EE rack in flight, they knew how to do it and expended some effort in getting to it. Take that for what it's worth.