LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

When

9 May 1987

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

52.11° N, 21.04° E

Description

1987 Polish aviation accident

Deaths

183

Cause

engine failure, conflagration, loss of control

1987 aviation accident in Poland

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Warsaw to New York City. In the late-morning hours of 9 May 1987, the Ilyushin Il-62 operating the flight crashed in the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw around 54 minutes after departure.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-62 airliner, operated by LOT Polish Airlines, crashes into a forest just outside Warsaw, killing all 183 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eine gecharterte Verkehrsmaschine Iljuschin Il-62M der polnischen LOT, auf dem Weg nach New York City, USA”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “на окраине Варшавы потерпел катастрофу Ил-62 компании LOT”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page