THE PILOT’S FINAL 6 WORDS

What was meant to be a routine trip on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crash from Warsaw to New York City ended in one of aviation’s most devastating tragedies.

As the aircraft spiraled toward disaster, the pilot reportedly uttered six heartbreaking final words — a chilling moment before the crash that killed all 183 people on board.

Investigators later discovered what triggered the catastrophic failure… but those final seconds in the cockpit still haunt aviation history. 💔

👇 See the pilot’s final words and what really caused the crash

Pilot’s heartbreaking 6 last words before horrific crash killed all 183 on board

The LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 plane was supposed to be a routine flight from Warsaw to New York City, but the trip would end in a terrible fiery death toll that killed everyone on board and left no survivors

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Everyone on board LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was killed(Image: Felix Goetting/Wikimedia Commons)

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was supposed to be a standard transatlantic journey from Warsaw to New York City.

However, the flight ended in a horrific inferno that claimed the lives of all 183 passengers onboard, marking the deadliest aviation catastrophe in Poland’s history.

Eerily, the last words of pilot Zygmunt Pawlacyzk, a seasoned 59-year-old pilot, were preserved for posterity, recorded by air traffic control as the aircraft plummeted to its tragic end.

It was a sunny and unremarkable September morning when passengers boarded the Soviet-built Ilyushin Il-62M.

The aircraft, still favored in nations like Russia and North Korea, had been constructed four years prior, in 1983, and was expected to be in generally good condition.

However, mere minutes after its 10:18am departure from Warsaw, air traffic controllers instructed the crew to ascend rapidly to avoid military training planes.

The pilots pushed the aging jet to its limits, a decision that would ultimately prove deadly, reports the Daily Record.

Nine minutes after maximum thrust was engaged, while the plane roared over northern Poland, defective roller bearings in one of the engines, equipped with only 13 rollers instead of the necessary 26, heated up to a terrifying 1,000°C.

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A memorial to those who lost their lives(Image: Grzegorz Petka/Wikimedia Commons)

The extreme heat caused the engine shaft to disintegrate, triggering the turbine disc to explode like a bomb.

Shrapnel ripped through the fuselage and other engines, severing flight controls and setting the plane ablaze.

As it burned, fiery debris shot into the cabin, prompting passengers to scramble toward the cockpit and further destabilizing the already precarious aircraft.

In the cockpit, crew members could be heard exclaiming “Fire! Two engines are gone.”

Captain Pawlacyzk contacted air-traffic control in Warsaw to report the fire and request permission to reverse course for an emergency landing, just over two miles away.

However, the aircraft was too severely damaged, a grim reality that air traffic control heard Captain Pawlacyzk acknowledge in his heart-wrenching final words: “Good night! Goodbye! Bye, we’re dying!”

Moments later, mere miles from the runway, the crippled jet nose-dived into a forest outside Warsaw at nearly 300mph, erupting upon impact.

There were no survivors, and the bodies were so horrifically mangled that 62 were never identified.

The Polish government declared two days of national mourning and erected a memorial at the crash site, which remains the deadliest in Poland’s history.

Despite the rise in flight numbers, mass tragedies like this have become less frequent in recent decades. However, just last month, 260 people perished when an Air India flight failed to ascend after takeoff.