Today’s the anniversary of the largest aviation disaster in the history of Poland. 183 victims

[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gzq-SJExk) is the recording from the pilots seconds before disaster with their last message.
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[LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_5055) 9 May 1987

**LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055** was a scheduled international passenger flight from [Warsaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw), [Poland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland) to [New York City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City), the United States. In the late-morning hours of 9 May 1987, the [Ilyushin Il-62M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-62) operating the flight crashed in the [Kabaty Woods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaty_Woods) [nature reserve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_reserve) on the outskirts of Warsaw around 56 minutes after departure. All 183 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash, making it the deadliest accident involving an Ilyushin Il-62, and the deadliest aviation disaster in Polish history.[^([1)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_5055#cite_note-ASN-1)