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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

1987 CE · Polish People's Republic, Europe · Disaster

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
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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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