![]() For now, frequency one thirty-four point eighty-seven. I have no communication with them to allow separation. I told you that clearance was set for 180 or higher. Well, we go to New York, possibly we'll be able to get to flight level 180. Soon after Flight 5055 took off from Warsaw, the crew was instructed by air traffic control (ATC) to climb to an altitude of 18,000 ft (5,500 m) as quickly as possible: The pilots were cleared to climb to 31,000 ft (9,400 m), on a course set to Grudziądz VHF omnidirectional range (VOR), which was reached at 26,500 ft (8,100 m). The flight was to continue on to San Francisco after refueling in New York. The chartered aircraft to New York City took off from runway 33 at Okęcie Airport at 10:18 AM. Of the 172 passengers on board, 155 were from Poland, while the other 17 were from the United States. Five flight attendants were on board one was stationed in the technical cabin bay, between the engines, and probably either lost consciousness and burned in the fire or was sucked out of the aircraft after decompression her body was never found despite an extensive search. The remaining flight crew were flight engineer, Wojciech Kłossek, aged 43, flight navigator, Lesław Łykowski, aged 47 a 43-year-old radio operator, Leszek Bogdan and Ryszard Chmielewski, a 53-year-old trainer of flight engineers on a routine observation of his progress. The first officer, Leopold Karcher, was aged 44. ![]() The captain, Zygmunt Pawlaczyk, was 59 years old, with 19,745 flight hours' experience (5,542 on Ilyushin Il-62s), and a captain of the type from. The proximity of the two pairs of engines would prove critical during the accident sequence.Īll of the crew members were Polish. The Il62M has four tail-mounted engines, with two on the left side (numbers 1 and 2) and two on the right side (numbers 3 and 4). The aircraft was a 186-seat Ilyushin Il-62M built in the third quarter of 1983, registered SP-LBG and named Tadeusz Kościuszko, after the Polish military leader and national hero. This led to a catastrophic failure of the two left engines and then an onboard fire, both of which eventually destroyed all flight-control systems. The accident was determined to have been caused by the disintegration of an engine shaft due to faulty bearings. All 183 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest accident involving an Ilyushin Il-62, and the deadliest aviation disaster in Polish history. In the late-morning hours of, the Ilyushin Il-62M operating the flight crashed in the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw around 56 minutes after departure. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Warsaw, Poland, to New York City, United States. San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, United States ![]() Kennedy International Airport, New York City, New York, United States Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport, Warsaw, Poland ![]() Uncontained engine failure leading to in-flight fire and destruction of control systems SP-LBG, the aircraft involved in the accident, in October 1986.
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