Transaero B744 enroute on Aug 5th 2015, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: August 5, 2015 / 20:43:42 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 5, 2015

Classification
Incident

Flight number
UN-1550

Aircraft Registration
EI-XLZ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

A Transaero Boeing 747-400, registration EI-XLZ performing flight UN-1550 from Antalya (Turkey) to Moscow Domodedovo (Russia) with 519 people on board, was climbing out of Antalya when the crew stopped the climb at FL320 due to the shut down of an engine (RB211). The crew decided to continue the flight to Moscow where the aircraft landed safely about 2:40 hours later.

The airline confirmed that one engine shut down spontaneously. As the aircraft can safely operate on three engines, the crew decided to continue the flight to Moscow.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Moscow about 9 hours after landing.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 5, 2015

Classification
Incident

Flight number
UN-1550

Aircraft Registration
EI-XLZ

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

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