Mayday!
A comedy and history podcast for the curious, morbidly curious, and mechanically curious about the tragedies and oddities of flight.
Mayday!
"Goodnight, Goodbye, We're Dying": LOT Polish Airlines 5055
Today's episode is a listener request! In the late 1980s, a flaming passenger plane fell from the sky near Warsaw, Poland. Unlike many crashes, all 183 souls on board had already been fully aware of their impending death for over ten minutes. Pandemonium had broken out in the passenger cabin as they try to flee the fire, and inside the cockpit, the pilots screamed their last, chilling words to air traffic control. What is everyone doing inside that plane, knowing that death is just around the corner? What led to this plane becoming engulfed in flames? Tune in this week as Caroline and Trevor tell the story of Poland's deadliest air disaster.