8 mai 1987 - LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was an Ilyushin Il-62M of LOT Polish Airlines that crashed in the late morning hours of Saturday, May 9, 1987. The event happened in the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland. The flight prepared to leave from Warsaw to New York City's John F. Kennedy International airport when it encountered multiple catastrophic events with the numbers 1 and 2 engines as well as the elevator shortly after departure. All 183 passengers and crew on board perished in the crash, making it the deadliest accident involving an Ilyushin Il-62, the most fatal crash in the history of LOT, and the deadliest aviation disaster in Polish history. It was determined to have been caused by the disintegration of an engine shaft due to faulty bearings.

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