Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 14 MAR 1980 |
| Time: | ca 11:00 |
| Type: | Ilyushin 62 |
| Operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | SP-LAA |
| C/n / msn: | 11004 |
| First flight: | 1971 |
| Engines: | 4 Kuznetsov NK-8-4 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 77 / Occupants: 77 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 87 / Occupants: 87 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW) (Poland)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK), United States of America |
| Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW/EPWA), Poland | |
| Flightnumber: | 007 |
When approaching Warsaw after a flight from New York, the crew initiated an overshoot procedure due to problems with the locking of the landing gear.
When power was increased, the no. 2 engine disintegrated. Debris of the no. 2 engine damaged rudder and elevator control lines, causing the Ilyushin to enter an uncontrolled descend. The aircraft struck the ground in a 20deg. nose down attitude and exploded while on finals to runway 15.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Metal fatigue of a turbine disc in the no. 2 engine.
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Distance from New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 6801 km (4250 miles).
Distance from New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY to Warszawa-Okecie Airport as the crow flies is 6801 km (4250 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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