The Cost Cutting Measure That Killed 183 People | The Crash Of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

Turbofan Diagram: K. Aainsqatsi Ball Bearing Image: Silberwolf Memorial Image: Grzegorz Petka This is the story of LOT flight 5055, On the 9th of may 1987, A Lot polish airlines IL62 was flying from Warsaw to new york. The plane was to head to san francisco after refueling at new york. At 10:18 am the plane took off from runway 33 bound for New york. Shortly after taking off from Warsaw, flight 5055 was instructed to climb to 18,000 feet immediately. Military air planes were training in the area and to ensure proper separation they had to climb very quickly, the controller said “Climb immediately. I mean it, immediately”, the pilots applied full power to comply with the controllers request and so they started their climb. 9 minutes went by and the plane was passing through 27,000 feet near the village of lipinki. Suddenly an explosion rocked the plane and something at the back had exploded, this was serious. The crew suddenly realized that they did not have elevator controls any more. Meaning that they couldn&pitch the plane up and down , they did however have pitch trim. In addition to that two of their engines, the engines on the left hand engine were out, they had little to no pitch control and half of their engines were inoperative. The pilots started an emergency decent down to 13,000 feet. They now needed to figure out how to land this stricken plane, but before they could land the plane they had to figure out where they could land it. The closet airport was...