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
Airline (brand) Airline brand. The Eastwood reissued guitars are built with chambered mahogany bodies as opposed to the hollow fiberglass (Res-O-Glas) bodies used for the original made by Valco. This difference in body material gives the reissue a more traditional electric guitar feel and tone, whereas the original Airline is noted for its unconventional playing feel and response. The reissue also has an adjustable truss rod, accessible from the headstock, while the original had a non-adjustable steel reinforced neck. The aesthetic differences between the original and the reissue include: different tuning heads, (the newer model having greenish knobs, as opposed to the