Can you safely power off a Airport 5th generation and attached disk drive without risking data getting lost??

Can you safely power off a 5th generation AirPort and an attached disk drive without losing data?

I'd like to just be able to shut it down by tripping off the power strip the disk and airport are attached to with my toe so they're not sucking down power at night or when I'm at work.     I wouldn't mind a sequence of power down the computers on the net first and then 'toeing off' the AirPort+disk.  
I'm just wondering how quickly between the time that I power off the mac that the airport would flush all of its buffers.

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