LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 Crash Reportage - PL (Part 2/3)

KATASTROFA SAMOLOTU IŁ 62-M TADEUSZ KOŚCISZKO W ROKU 1987 - REPORTAŻE Z MIEJSCA KATASTROFY NAKRĘCONE W DNIU TRAGEDII I W DNIU NASTĘPNYM.

At 10:18 flight LO5055 took off from Warsaw runway 33 for a flight to New York-JFK. The aircraft headed for the GRU VOR, which it passed at FL265, climbing to FL310. Two minutes later (at 10:41) the no. 2 engine Low Pressure turbine shaft broke loose, followed by the failure of the turbine disc. Debris punctured the aft fuselage, causing a fire in the cargo hold. The elevator control system was severed and the no. 1 engine had to be shut down. The flight crew immediately started an emergency descent to 4000m. After shutting down both no. 1 and no. 2 engine the crew mistakenly thought the fire was extinguished. They had decided to land at Modlin airport, but still unaware of the fire, changed to Warsaw-Okecie runway 33 because of better rescue equipment there. The flight started a left turn for runway 33 at 11:09 at an altitude of 1450m and an airspeed of 480km/h. The crew lost control during the turn and the Il-62 crashed into a forest, 6 km from the runway at an airspeed of 465km/h and an 11deg. left bank, 12deg. nose-down.
The cause of the accident was the destruction of engine no.2 resulting in disconnection of the longitudinal control system from the control column, cabin depressurisation, damage to the electric system and fire. At the end stage of flight the fire caused the loss of the aircraft longitudinal control and the impact with the ground after 31 minutes as counted from the beginning of the emergency situation. The destruction of engine no.2 occurred without any signal from the warning/testing system. Under the circumstances the crew members were not able to stop the engine in good time, consequently an emergency situation was created on board the aircraft.

Status: Final
Date: 9 May 1987
Time: 11:12
Type: Ilyushin 62MK
Operator: LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze
Registration: SP-LBG
C/n / msn: 3344942
First flight: 1983
Total airframe hrs: 6972.0
Cycles: 1752.0
Engines: 4 Soloviev D-30KU
Crew: Fatalities: 11/Occupants: 11
Passengers: Fatalities: 172/Occupants: 172
Total: Fatalities: 183/Occupants: 183
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: 6 km (3.8 mls) SE of Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW) (Poland)
Phase: En route
Nature: International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), Poland
Destination airport: New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK), United States of America
Flight number: 5055

Source: http://aviation-safety.net

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• aviation
• plane
• crash
• flight
• 5055
• Tadeusz
• Kosciuszko
• Waraszawa
• Warsaw
• Polska
• Poland
• 1987

[Lajkonik]

Russisch shit ! Stupid russian engeeners. Only thanks to the Polish pilots of we not have more tragedies.

[miziol81]

As usualy, Ruskies don't care about others and send low quality. If you read repport from crash... That "perfectly safe" russian piece of engineering... Had half of required shafts in bearings (and it was originall Russian bearing).

God bless that we are not forced by rusian tanks to buy russian shit anymore.

[wiadomoscizgola]

0:36 ciało

[HeySlowPokes]

Thanks for the English text.

[carolobear]

there are russian planes, and there are polish pilots... Any technic is not 100 % safe! Not american's Boeings, not europeans Airbus, not russian's planes...

[Philly2002]

1:30... :(

[nczarna]

To nie byl "Sikorski" tylko "Kosciszuko"!

[maciekcracovia]

nie

[MSEGJaZ77]

Władze polskie podały taką nazwę w oficjalnym oświadczeniu.

[domikoo123]

Moi Rodzice tam zgineli ja bym też ale nie leciałem wtedy [*] Ale miałem leciec

[SebasianSZ]

...7 lat wcześniej,ale w samolocie tego samego typu...

[veld66]

Sad!