LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7 Captain Paweł Lipowczan. All information in this entry is based on information, interviews and documents presented in two episodes of the Polish TV series "The Black Series" about air, land and marine incidents and disasters in post-war Poland: "Kopernik" (about Flight 007) and "Kościuszko" (about LOT Flight 5055). LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7 LOT Flight 7 was an Ilyushin Il-62 that crashed near Okęcie Airport in Warsaw, Poland, on 14 March 1980, as the crew aborted a landing and attempted to go-around. All 87 crew and passengers died. It was caused by the disintegration of one of the turbine discs
Airline codes Airline codes This is a list of airline codes. The table lists IATA's two-character airline designators, ICAO's three-character airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included. IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines. The standard is described in IATA's "Standard Schedules Information Manual" and the codes themselves are described in IATA's "Airline Coding Directory". (Both are published twice-annually.) The IATA codes originally based on the ICAO designators which were issued in 1947 as two-letter airline identification codes (see