Electrical failure

Dad:
(An e-mail of about 50-100 words that describes in laymen’s terms what happened on your flight)

Summary of report to Flight Department:
(Try to condense your report - but keep it technically accurate and informative for our more knowledgeable readership)

Dear Readers:
Imagine yourselves seated here. You are piloting this aircraft from Paris to New York and you are half way across. It is nighttime and you are 35,000 feet above the Atlantic. Suddenly everything goes dark and you have a major electrical malfunction. If you cannot swiftly restore the airplane’s electrical integrity, it will make a life-extinguishing dive into a storm-swept sea.

Now, I can see you are nodding affirmatively as I ask: Aren’t you happy you are sitting at a well-illuminated desk on terra firma - you are gazing at your functioning computer and you are not imperiled by a life terminating catastrophe?