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
Azimuth (airline) certificate (AOC) giving the airline permission to commence flight operations. Domestic routes to Kaliningrad, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Surgut and Gelendzhik, as well as international routes to Yerevan, Prague, Frankfurt, Istanbul and Tel Aviv are planned to enter Azimuth's route network by 2021. On 7 December 2017, Azimuth officially shifted all flights from Rostov-on-Don Airport to Platov International Airport. Azimuth officially started international flights on 29 September 2018 when it started offering weekly flights to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. On 1 October 2018, Azimuth had its first flight to Yerevan, Armenia, starting a schedule now offering three services a week. The airline, which