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
Song (airline) into Delta. Virgin Islands Cyril E King Intl Airport The following destinations were discontinued prior to the merging of operations. On April 30, 2006, the final Song flight operated from Las Vegas to Orlando. Song aircraft were merged into Delta Air Lines's mainline fleet. All Song Boeing 757 jets were reconfigured in a 26/158 First Class/Economy configuration. Song (airline) Song, LLC was a low-cost air service within an airline brand owned and operated by Delta Air Lines from 2003 to 2006. Song's main focus was on leisure traffic between the northeastern United States and Florida, a market where it competed