LOT Boeing 767 Emergency Landing


A Boeing 767 operated by LOT Polish Airlines made a successful emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, 1 November, after a hydraulic failure led to the landing gears not opening before landing.

Flight LO-16 was bound to Warszawa-Frédéric Chopin Airport from New York Newark airport with 220 passengers and 11 crew onboard. According to Aviation Safety Network, at about 13:16 local time, while on approach to Warsaw’s runway 33, the crew encountered problems lowering the undercarriage (gears). The airplane entered a holding pattern at 2750 feet but the gear could not be deployed. While on holding, they burnt off most of the remaining fuel onboard, and thenthe crew decided to carry out a gear-up landing on runway 33 at 14:35. Nobody was hurt in the “text-book” emergency landing.

The Boeing 767-300 (registration SP-LPC, named “Poznan”) was originally built for LOT, first flew in May 1997, and is powered by two GE engines – that this time served also well as the main landing gear…

More images on Airliners.net.

by balint01

1 Response to “LOT Boeing 767 Emergency Landing”


  1. 1 Aircraft Statistics March 11, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    Ouch! That looks like a very rough landing, we recently added an interactive map of Boeing aircraft registrations by city, you should check it out;
    http://www.aircraftstatistics.com/boeing-faa-registered-aircraft-interactive-map/

    P.S. Thanks for the great article, glad to hear no-one was hurt!


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