Pegasus Airlines flight PC-2248 made an emergency landing in Izmir, Turkey, on November 29th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Istanbul to Bodrum, Turkey, was diverted due to a lightning strike.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-1135 made an emergency landing in Zagreb, Croatia, on October 2nd.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Istanbul, Turkey, to Paris Orly Airport, France, was diverted after the crew received a cargo smoke indication.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-947 made an emergency landing in Zurich, Switzerland, on September 7th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Istanbul, Turkey, was on approach to Zurich when the crew reported issues with the flaps.
The plane subsequently landed without flaps.
All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-824 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Ankara, Turkey, on July 18th.
The Airbus A320-200N plane, bound for Bahrain, took off from Istanbul, Turkey, but burst a tire during departure.
The crew subsequently diverted to Ankara where the plane landed safely.
Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight TC-6773 made an emergency landing in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, on June 24th.
The Boeing 737-800 plane heading from Novosibirsk, Russia, to Antalya, Turkey, was diverted due to an engine failure.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-8622 veered off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at Trabzon Airport, Turkey, on January 13th.
The incident happened when the Boeing 737-800 plane was coming from Ankara, Turkey.
The plane came to stop just short of the waters of the Black Sea.
There were one hundred and sixty-two passengers and six crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-2862 made a safe landing following a bird strike near Gulyali, Turkey, on August 16th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Sabiha Gokçen International Airport, Turkey, was on final approach to Gulyali when a bird hit it.
The plane continued for a safe landing. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
A Pegasus Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing in Isfahan, Iran, on February 13th.
The plane en-route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Bahrain was diverted after a passenger became ill.
The plane landed safely. The passenger received medical treatment at the airport.
The flight resumed shortly afterwards.
Pegas Fly Airlines flight IK-2561 had to divert for an emergency landing in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on January 18th.
The Boeing 767-300 plane heading from Perm, Russia, to Nha Trang, Vietnam, was diverted after all the toilets became inoperative.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-383 had to return and make an emergency landing in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 25th.
The Airbus A320-200 plane took off for Hamburg, Germany, but had to return shortly afterwards after the crew reported a bird strike.
The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-423 made a safe emergency landing at Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, Italy, on September 4th.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Istanbul, Turkey, had just landed when one of its gears stopped working and its tyre bursted.
The plane landed safely.
No one was injured.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-4162 made a safe landing at Erkilet International Airport, Kayseri, Turkey, on August 11.
The Boeing 737-800 flying from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey, had just landed when its main brakes locked up resulting in tire burst.
The plane was damaged.
No one was injured.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC-327 made an emergency landing in Stuttgart, Germany, on May 3rd.
The plane, flying from Izmir, Turkey, declared an emergency due to an air-conditioning failure.
The plane landed uneventfully after the crew initiated an emergency descent. The passenger oxygen masks were deployed.
A Pegasus Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria, on August 28th.
The plane, en-route from Antalya, Turkey to Amsterdam, Netherlands, was diverted after one of its engines failed.
The plane landed uneventfully.
There were 163 passengers and 6 crew members on-board at the time; none of them was hurt.
Pegasus Airlines flight PC5121 had to return and make an emergency landing at Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir, Turkey, on May 18.
The Boeing 737-800 was heading to London when it lost cabin pressure and had to turn back for an emergency landing.
The plane landed uneventfully and everyone aboard remained safe.
The airline accommodated 49 passengers in another flight.
On Feb 7 2014, on a Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-86J en route from Kharkov to Istanbul, the 45-year-old passenger seated in “2F” hollered “BOMB!” threatened there was a bomb in the baggage compartment and wanted to hijack the plane to go to the Sochi Olympics. His attempt to enter the cockpit was foiled. When pilots entered Turkish airspace, they informed authorities.
An F-16 Turkish military fighter jet was called to provide an escort.
The flight landed in Istanbul (on the Asian side of the airport where Pegasus has its hub) where the Ukrainian man was taken into custody.
There was no bomb. None of the 110 passengers were hurt.
The passenger was just intoxicated.
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What: Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration TC-ASP performing flight PC-223 from Ercan Cyprus to Adana Turkey
Where: Ercan
When: Dec 9th 2011 11:05
Who: 75 passengers and 6 crew
Why: Just ten minutes out of Ercan, over the Five Finger Mountains, the plane was struck by lightning.
Consequently, several systems malfunctioned. Pilots returned to Ercan State Airport and made a safe landing. Passengers were provided alternative flights.
Many regions in cyprus have been subjected to torrential rain and thunder.