Narrative:

During cruise about an hour into the flight; my first officer (first officer) received his meal and began to eat. I was looking to the left on my ipad when I heard a commotion to my right. I turned to see that my first officer was in distress. He was leaning towards me; his water bottle in his right hand was horizontal and spilling over the center console. His head was turned away so that I couldn't immediately see his face. His lunch tray slipped off his lap on to the floor.with a raised voice I asked 'are you okay' to which he did not respond. I grabbed his shoulder and moved him slightly forward and suspecting he was choking slapped him on his upper back a few times. After about the third time he lifted his head and turned toward me; his eyes were tearing and some water was coming out of his mouth. I kept asking if he were okay and he was able to respond that he was better. While [he] started to regain his composure I took a box of tissues and began sopping up the water on the center console. Within a few minutes the number one radio control head was unusable. The number two radio control head was acting up but still working. The weather radar which was on; stopped functioning; but then later recovered. A few minutes later the center CDU/ACARS control went blank and never recovered.while assessing the damaged equipment I continued to talk to [the] first officer to see how he was doing. He was fully recovered from his incident. I asked if he had any health issues I should know about. He said that he did not. I asked if he felt that we should continue or did he feel it would be safer to divert and seek medical attention. He said he was absolutely fine and no need to divert on his account.next it was time to asses whether it was safe to continue based on the malfunctioning equipment. The [767] has 3 control heads on the center console two of which were working. The forward two cdus were functioning normally allowing all normal activities. (FMC programming; ACARS access). The weather was VFR and forecast to stay that way; so with this I elected to continue our flight. I contacted dispatch and informed him of what happened. I asked the dispatcher to contact maintenance and find out if they wanted any circuit breakers pulled in light of the electrical equipment damaged by water. Their response was not to touch any breakers; and so we did not. The flight continued uneventfully.

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Title: B767 flight crew reported equipment issues resulted from the First Officer spilling water on the center console.

Narrative: During cruise about an hour into the flight; my First Officer (FO) received his meal and began to eat. I was looking to the left on my iPad when I heard a commotion to my right. I turned to see that my First Officer was in distress. He was leaning towards me; his water bottle in his right hand was horizontal and spilling over the center console. His head was turned away so that I couldn't immediately see his face. His lunch tray slipped off his lap on to the floor.With a raised voice I asked 'are you okay' to which he did not respond. I grabbed his shoulder and moved him slightly forward and suspecting he was choking slapped him on his upper back a few times. After about the third time he lifted his head and turned toward me; his eyes were tearing and some water was coming out of his mouth. I kept asking if he were okay and he was able to respond that he was better. While [he] started to regain his composure I took a box of tissues and began sopping up the water on the center console. Within a few minutes the number one radio control head was unusable. The number two radio control head was acting up but still working. The weather radar which was on; stopped functioning; but then later recovered. A few minutes later the center CDU/ACARS control went blank and never recovered.While assessing the damaged equipment I continued to talk to [the] FO to see how he was doing. He was fully recovered from his incident. I asked if he had any health issues I should know about. He said that he did not. I asked if he felt that we should continue or did he feel it would be safer to divert and seek medical attention. He said he was absolutely fine and no need to divert on his account.Next it was time to asses whether it was safe to continue based on the malfunctioning equipment. The [767] has 3 control heads on the center console two of which were working. The forward two CDUs were functioning normally allowing all normal activities. (FMC programming; ACARS access). The weather was VFR and forecast to stay that way; so with this I elected to continue our flight. I contacted Dispatch and informed him of what happened. I asked the Dispatcher to contact Maintenance and find out if they wanted any circuit breakers pulled in light of the electrical equipment damaged by water. Their response was not to touch any breakers; and so we did not. The flight continued uneventfully.

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