Created Tuesday, Oct 19th 2021 10:49Z, last updated Tuesday, Oct 19th 2021 10:49Z
A Pegasfly Boeing 767-300, registration VQ-BTQ performing flight IK-1811 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Antalya (Turkey), was enroute at FL350 about 160nm north of Rostov on Don (Russia) when the crew requested a descent to FL310 advising that a generator as well as the APU had failed. Subsequently a diversion to Rostov was initiated, the aircraft descended to FL180. The crew advised that they had managed to restart their generator and wanted to continue to destination. The aircraft climbed to FL270, however, about 40 minutes after the first descent and about 50nm south of Rostov the crew advised their generator had failed again and requested to divert to Rostov. The aircraft landed safely on Rostov's runway 23 about 25 minutes after the second failure of the generator.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Rostov about 9 hours after landing.
