LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 aviation accident by State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 767-35DER, registered SP-LPC, named "Poznań", serial number 28656. It was first delivered to LOT on 15 May 1997. The damage to the plane was so extensive that the airline chose not to make repairs. The aircraft was eventually scrapped in November 2013. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was scheduled to arrive at Warsaw Chopin Airport from Newark Liberty International Airport on 1 November 2011 at 13:35 CET. Technical difficulties were detected by Captain Tadeusz Wrona within 30 minutes after takeoff from Newark. The crew indicated
Airline codes has been in place for 20 years. The codes issued to date comply with IATA Resolution 762, which provides for only two characters. These codes thus comply with the current airline designator standard, but use only a limited subset of its possible range. There are three types of designator: unique, numeric/alpha and controlled duplicate. IATA airline designators are used to identify an airline for commercial purposes in reservations, timetables, tickets, tariffs, air waybills and in telecommunications. A flight designator is the concatenation of the airline designator, xx(a), and the numeric flight number, n(n)(n)(n), plus an optional one-letter "operational suffix" (a).