LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 Crash Reportage - PL (Part 1/3)

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

[Vladdistar]

Out of 300 Ilyushin-62 produced, only 21 were lost. Out of therse 21, only 4 were lost due to technical problems - two in DDR, two in Poland. Aeroflot, who operated most of the 62s built, lost ZERO planes due to technical malfunction (although 3 or 4 crashed due to pilot error).

Il-62 was one of the safest planes in the world in its time. However, it seems that some engineers did not know how to maintain this bird properly.

RIP Kopiernik and Kosciuszko crew and passengers.

[MorfoAtari]

But they say that due to error character it was almost impossible to find it by the maintenance crew...

[xpimpx83]

To w ten rejs po raz ostatni udała się kochana Anna Jantar?

[MorfoAtari]

Nie - to zupełnie inny lot.

[didipipibi]

Mój wujek byl pilotem w Locie w tamtych czasach i opowiadal mi,ze juz po pierwszej katastrofe LOT planowal zakup nowoczesnych samolotow,ale atmosfera polityczna byla taka,ze ruscy potraktowaliby to jako sabotaz i mogliby naprzyklad zaprzestac sprzedazy czesci,albo szkolen. W momencie tej katastrofy LOT mial juz zamowione B767(pierwszy otrzymany w 1989). Gdyby nie ponadludzkie umiejetnosci pilotow LOT-u tych katastrof byloby zdecydowanie wiecej.

[flugzeug94]

LOT Polish Airlines is a great airline,

only because this accident it isn't a bad airline. Many airlines have accidents, but too many people don't understand this.

[fucktheYT]

The last words of pilots: "Good night! Goodbye! Bye! We're dying!!!"

[michaszek17]

1:56 ludzkie szczątki po dekapitacji leżące w ułożeniu na brzuchu z prawym przedramieniem pod klatką piersiową

[CaptainMike97]

@MafiaGENGTEAM1970 fuck u

[av21031]

@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 crashed, and 20 AN-24s of which two crashed. If you check ASN, these rates are far higher than other operators. After they initiated engine turbine checks in 1987 they had no further accidents.

[av21031]

@NYUmag It is one of the safest planes of its era with 12 fatal incidents. Over 30 nations flew IL-62s (some for 40+ years) and it had a low accident rate (and no fatalities between 1989 - 2009). For comparison the loss % is slightly lower than the VC10 which only flew for 16 years. The IL-62 first flew in 1963 and still flies today. Many countries used it as official govt tansport including some sworn enemies of Russia (eg Georgia). Flight 5055 was tragic as are all crashes.

[av21031]

@Vladdistar There were 292 IL-62s including prototypes but they have a good safety record (9 crashes since 1967) and the only 2 due to engine failure were both with LOT. The accident rate overall was similar to a DC8 per km but was only half the DC-8 hull loss rate.The later model IL-62M had an accident rate about half that again. One of the DDR planes you mention ran off the runway due to an elevator lock tab being left in place. The other crashes were navigational or pilot error.

[wojtxnh69]

@matiruzam to byly inne czasy, a kraj komunistyczny latajacy na zachodnich kapitalistycznych samolotach nie byl by chyba poprawnie polityczny dla PRL i ZSRR. masz przykladowo polskie prototypy samochodow ktore wyprzedzaly swoich jakby "kopii" ktore wyprodukowano kilka lat pozniej (np: Wars - Kadett), bo byly zbyt zachodnie i ZSRR wydalo rozkaz o roboczej nazwie NIE i nie mozna bylo ich zrobic bo nie spotkalo by sie przyjaciolom z Moskwy, a Vladdistar nie mowi po polsku

[matiruzam]

@Vladdistar dlaczego wszystkie katastrofy lotnicze polskich lini lotniczych "Lot", ogólnie katastrof samolotów należących do Polski odbywały się na radzieckich samolotach ?? Czy to nie świadczy o tym że to co radzieckie to złe? prymitywne ?! Dosyć żerowania Rosji Radzieckiej na Narodzie Polskim.

[NYUmag]

@Vladdistar please get your facts straight - "one of the safest planes in the world" give me a fucken brake please - I wouldn't go on a Russian-built plane if you paid me - you guys were, and still are technologically 30 years behind Boeing or Airbus planes

[tomek1158]

@xpimpx83 Anna Jantar leciala z Nowego Jorku do warszawy a nie z Warszawy do nowego joku i Koprnikiem a nie Kosciuszko chociaz przyczyny obu katastrof sa te same chociaz pewnie po 3 latach juz to wiesz xd