Total generator failure, 14 tires blown in 747 landing....

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This was a flight that Southern Air 747 crew will not easily forget...

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Incident: Southern Air B742 near Anchorage on Sep 11th 2012, failure of all generators on board

A Southern Air Boeing 747-200 freighter, registration N783SA performing flight 9S-9783 (dep Sep 10th) from Miami,FL to Anchorage,AK (USA),
had been enroute at FL400 and was in the initial descent towards Anchorage approximately 23 minutes prior to touch down
when all four generators on board failed leaving the aircraft just with battery back up electric power.

The aircraft touched down safely,
but blew all but two main and body gear tyres on the roll out due to the failure of the anti skid system
nd non-availability of thrust reversers and
came to a stop disabled on the runway reporting blown tyres and hot brakes.

The runway was closed for about 12 hours as result until the 14 tyres were replaced,
the aircraft was towed off the runway and the runway had been cleaned.

More at
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