Investigators are recommending that pilots be trained more rigorously to fly with sole reference to standby instruments following a serious incident in which a British Airways Airbus A319 suffered an extensive loss of electrical power.

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch has also advised BA to review its reporting procedures after the inquiry team only learned about the incident six days later, the jet having remained in service in the meantime.

After a two-year investigation the AAIB has been unable to determine the reason for the power loss, which affected the jet’s left-hand electrical network, shortly after the aircraft departed London Heathrow for Budapest on 22 October 2005. But it suspects one o

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