Can't turn airplane mode off - it requires a hardware switch that my lenovo

Can't turn airplane mode off - it requires a hardware switch that my lenovo laptop x130e does not have.
Ubuntu 18.04
rfkill list all
tells me that
both the WiFi and Bluetooth are
hardware blocked but not software blocked
Thanks for any help

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