LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007

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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York City to Warsaw. On 14 March 1980, the Ilyushin Il-62 operating the flight,, crashed into the moat of a 19th-century fort near Warsaw's Okęcie Airport while attempting a go-around, killing all 77 passengers and 10 crew on board. As the crew increased engine power for the go-around, a fatigue fracture of the turbine shaft in one of the four engines caused a turbine disc to disintegrate, and its fragments damaged two other engines and severed the elevator and rudder controls. A Polish government commission attributed the failure to hidden material and manufacturing defects in the engine shaft, a finding that the Soviet side rejected until a similar shaft failure caused the crash of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 in 1987. Archival documents made public in 2010 showed that LOT's practice of running engines beyond their service life had also contributed to the accident.

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