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@1docentfurman Poland uses Russian planes such as Antonov and Yaks. The IL-62 is a robust design with a very low accident rate. Early ones required more maintenance than later versions and LOT simply did not have equipment for doing this. Some LOT 62s (including 5055) had auxilliary fuel tanks fi...

@xxman7 Over 30 airlines operated IL-62s and they all had good safety records except with LOT. There were reasons for this, primarily because LOT didn't get equipment for checking turbines until 1987, but they also cut back on what little maintenance they did during the 1980s. It was important to...

@drmartyn There were only 28 still in use in July 2011. Cubana retired their civilian ones but retained one for the govt, Deta Air (Kazakhstan) operates them (one is a former Czech Airways example), a couple of airlines in Russia as well as the EMERCOM ministry, (and possibly the govt although th...

@rafalweb This plane is very safe, especially for a 1960s design. A lot of planes from that era had wood fitments. Standard procedure for uncontained engine failure is to land. In flight 5055, the captain elected to keep flying (it's unclear why that decision was made against the advice of the fl...

@ATLRCFlyer IL-62s can climb quickly but pilots generally adopt a shallow angle so as to minimise turbulence from the wings which are over 3000 sq ft area and relatively larger than those on the VC-10. The power to weight ratio of the 62 is actually very good.

@davewave57 There were 40 civilian VC-10s of which 3 were given to Boeing in payment for new planes. Of 37 planes, 2 crashed. Two others were lost in accidents excluding terrorist losses (GARTA & XR806). They were in civilian service for 16 years and retired in 1981. Over 280 IL-62s were in civil...

@iwannabethekid34x Why exactly would the BBC be anti-American? There are so many anomalies associated with the lunar landings, many of NASA's own doing (including their doctoring of many static images and infamously using the same film footage for different landings at different lunar locations) ...

@seboxman Russians never did complete overhauls on LOT planes - engines are overhauled individually after specified times depending on flight hrs and/or cycles and changed after 18-20,000 hrs. Outer engines have different overhaul times to inner. They are supposed to be checked between overhauls ...

@kamilinlondon The IL-62M is very safe. Poland operated 23, 13 of which it owned and 10 leased from Tarom and Aeroflot. In the first, the engine was known to be faulty and had caused probs when fitted to other IL-62s, and in the second, they didn't land the plane in spite of the flight engineer's...

@aspiringdrummer17 Thanks for noticing the typo - I meant 1035kph. The Tu-154 is sometimes described as the fastest civilian jet in srevice since the demise of Concorde but I don't know that they are actually faster than an IL-62 at full throttle.

@FullMetalJackSquat That was the "luggage at hand" system that the IL-86 used to speed up boarding when there were no air bridges. Passengers deposited their luggage in underfloor compartments as they entered the airliner and then went to the upper deck. The system was used in the Lockheed Trista...

Quite funny. Yes he pumped the gas before starting it. I have a 1978 Lada and when it is cold you never pump the gas you just turn the key and it starts (it actually tells you that in the manual). If you pump the gas it floods it. His other car is a 1950s Volga which probably explains a lot...

@knaphilllee Actually this plane is listed as the longest-lasting in its class. It's been in service for 44 years so far - it's nearest designs are the VC-10 (in service for 16 years), and the Boeing 707 and DC8, both of which are retired from civilian service. The IL-62's predecessor is the IL-1...

@Lex5576 That's flawed logic - 95% of Cubana's aircraft fleet is Russian (mostly Soviet era models) and 5% is western, yet western makes have accounted for 28% of accidents in Cuba.

Cubana has just retired its last two IL-62s (Mar 1) at a ceremonial flight at Jose Marti. The journal 'Granma' ran an emotive lead article about it on Mar 11 titled 'Tribute to a Titan.' The first Cubana plane CU T1208 was delivered in 1977 and 28 were operated by them. The article praised the pl...

@FlyerKBOS Other operators had engine failures but none resulted in a crash (and IL-62s were flown by 32 countries). If a plane has a low accident rate it can't also be unsafe - it's either one or the other. With 9 fatal crashes plus 3 other fatal incidents the IL-62 rate is lower than VC10, B-70...

@SoniaNajar Thanks for the information. I've heard various versions of what happened but yes, noone would have died had they landed at Modlin (or Gdansk). LOT planes had extra fuel tanks fitted in the tail for long distance flights (Poland to US) and it appears to have been one of these that igni...

@Byron10301 No it actually has a good record considering how many were made and where they fly. The loss rate is similar to a Boeing 727 but the Tu-154 flies in harsher areas. What mght confuse you is that wiki entries for Russian planes like the 154 and the IL-62 list every hull loss on the main...

@raptors222222 Well to give you some idea of how big, in 1989 Air Transport World reported that before the Soviet Union breakup, Aeroflot had 2,500 jet airliners, more than 2,500 turboprops, 9,000 helicopters and smaller planes, and employed half a million staff. By 1992, about 70 airlines were ...

@flugzeug94 LOT has a better safety record today but in past decades they had quite a few accidents considering their size. One airliner they operated before the IL-62 was the Vickers Viscount of which they had 3 and 2 of them crashed (one of them after only a month). They had two AN-12s and one ...