LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 "Good night! Goodbye! Bye, we're dying!"). All 172 passengers and 11 crew died as the aircraft broke apart and crashed. After the crash of the Il-62 operating as LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007, the airline had started replacing its Ilyushin Il-62s with the more modernized Ilyushin Il-62M version. These had newer engines (Soloviev D-30 instead of Kuznetsov NK-8), but both of these turbofan engines shared the same critical point — low pressure turbine and engine shaft design and construction. According to the Polish investigatory commission, the cause of the crash was the disintegration of an engine shaft due to faulty
Malaysian Airline System Flight 684 The plane slid along the ground for , skipped for , and finally struck a stream embankment where it slid another before coming to rest. The aircraft was still short of the runway and had lost its landing gear and both engines. All 247 passengers and crew survived, evacuating the aircraft before the fire destroyed it. The probable cause was ascribed to pilot error in not monitoring descent rate during approach in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) and continuing an approach below company minima without sighting the runway. Malaysian Airline System Flight 684 Malaysian Airline System Flight 684 was an international