LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
- LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
Infobox Airliner accident
Crash
name=LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
Date=May 9 1987
Type=engine failure and loss of flight controls
Site=Warsaw, Poland
Fatalities=183 (passengers:172 crew:11)
Injuries=0
Aircraft Type=Ilyushin Il-62
Origin=Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport, Poland (WAW/EPWA)
Destination=John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York (JFK/KJFK)
Operator=LOT Polish Airlines
Tail Number=SP-LBG
Passengers=172
Crew=11
Survivors=0
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashed in the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw on May 9, 1987. The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il-62M named after Tadeusz Kościuszko. The probable cause of the crash was an engine explosion due to faulty bearings inside the number 2 engine and loss of flight controls.
The damaged plane tried to return to Warsaw airport (commonly known as Okęcie) but a rapidly spreading in-flight fire caused a total failure of surviving flight controls - plane trim. The aircraft crashed into the ground at 480 km/h in the forest 6 kilometers away from the Warsaw airport. The last words recorded by the flight recorder inside the cockpit at 11:12:13 were "Cześć! Giniemy!" (eng. "Goodbye! We are going to die!"). No one survived the crash.
ee also
*List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft
External links
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19870509-0 ASN Aircraft accident description]
* [http://www.planecrashinfo.com/w19870509.htm Planecrashinfo.com photo and report]
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