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Fly-by-wire

In the event of a complete electrical power failure, you're essentially back to flying a C-172. As long as there is no fire, it's just an interesting day at the office.

I sincerely hope you never experience a complete loss of electrical power on any modern passenger aircraft. For example Airbus designs past A320 do not have mechanical or hydrolic backups - all backup flight controls require at least some electrical power to stay on. Boeing designs do keep a mechanical backup through 777 at least (I could not quickly find whther 787 has a mechanical backup or not; perhaps someone more knowledgeable can comment) - so if you are truly paranoid, you should be very picky in choosing your flights, and in making sure that the crew is familiar with mechanical backup operation.

Reference: Fly-by-wire by wikipedia