Plane has gone missing over the Atlantic.

Modern airbus aircraft are designed to be unstable in the sky. They use fly-by-wire, in other words, the extremely fast reaction times of the onboard computers make small and fast adjustments constantly to keep the plane in the sky.

A total electrical failure would leave the pilots with a completely unstable aircraft, it would not be possible to have a safe landing.

With that said, the fly-by-wire systems are often quadruplexed so that you can have 3 failures, and still have 1 fully operational channel. The chance of total failure is so low, I can't imagine that was the cause.

Has anybody else read or seen 'The Langoliers'?

Oh yes, let's make jokes about 228 people who we don't know being missing in the Atlantic Ocean for the best part of 12 hours
Some people are beyond belief.

Its most probable that they have all died, its sad yes, but thats what happens unfortunately. The computer system itself sent the message regarding the electrical systems, not the Pilot. However as someone else has posted these planes have multiple channels for their avionics, so if there is a failure, then the plane can still fly.

However by this time the plane will have ran out of fuel so it has went down somewhere, they are unlikely to be found alive. This theory also negates the possibility that the plane experienced critical faliures and went down there and then. But overall they most likely wont be alive if they are found. Its really unfortunate.

Many planes, subs and large vessels go missing without a trace. Gone and never found. We know more about the Moon and Mars than we do about our oceans and how they affect the atmosphere above them.

I wonder if they're all floating in the sea right now?

If they are, they'd better hope one of them has a (dry) satellite phone. If they do, they should be alright.

If there are any survivors from this incident, I'm going to be so happy.

Many planes, subs and large vessels go missing without a trace. Gone and never found. We know more about the Moon and Mars than we do about our oceans and how they affect the atmosphere above them.