Azur B752 near Baku on Dec 21st 2019, generator failures

Last Update: December 21, 2019 / 22:22:31 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 21, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Azur Air

Flight number
ZF-7728

Departure
Goa, India

Aircraft Registration
VP-BLV

Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200

ICAO Type Designator
B752

An Azur Boeing 757-200, registration VP-BLV performing flight ZF-7728 from Goa (India) to Moscow Vnukovo (Russia), was enroute at FL360 over the Caspian Sea about 200nm north of Baku (Azerbaijan) when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Baku due to multiple generators being inoperative. The aircraft landed safely in Baku about 35 minutes later.

The airline reported the aircraft diverted due to technical problems.

Passengers reported the captain announced several generators had failed.

A replacement Boeing 767-300 registration VQ-BUO positioned to Baku, resumed the flight and reached Vnukovo with a delay of 11.5 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 21, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Azur Air

Flight number
ZF-7728

Departure
Goa, India

Aircraft Registration
VP-BLV

Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200

ICAO Type Designator
B752

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