Talk:LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055

message: I think that the following category edit is wrong:
Cydebot (talk | contribs)‎ m (20,817 bytes) (Robot - Speedily moving category In-flight aircraft fires to Category:Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight fires per CFDS.) (undo) 
There was a fire, but it was not the cause of the accident. The accident was caused by engine failure that in turn damaged the flight control systems. Thomas.Hedden (talk) 13:49, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong robot category edit

message: I have corrected the English translation of "Czesc, giniemy!" twice now, but an anonymous user keeps changing it back. The progressive present tense in English suggests an act in progress, rather than an act that is about to happen. The pilot made this statement BEFORE the plane crashed, not afterwards. Accordingly, the English translation should use the future rather than the progressive present tense. I am a native speaker of English and studied Polish at the UC Berkeley, and lived in Poland for six months. I am also a professional translator. I would be curious to know the native language and professional qualifications of the person who is making these changes who won't even sign his/her name to his/her work.Thomas.Hedden (talk) 12:24, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: English translation of "Czesc, giniemy!"

message: According to the cabin voice recorder, the stewardess who was never found was sucked out of the airplane. Thomas.Hedden (talk) 03:39, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fate of stewardess

message: Please include this section in the page. This accident has been aired on Polish television by the Discovery Channel as "Historie Lotnicze: LOT 5055 Katastrofa W Lesie Kabackim"- (Aviation History: Flight 5055- Disaster in Kabaty Woods) as well as an episode of the Polish documentary Czarny Serial (Black Serial in Polish.). There is a video which is about the Discovery Channel documentary on youtube as well as a channel which has the full video trimmed into 8 parts, but includes loosely translated English captions. Both documentaries include interviews with employees of LOT, the experts who helped in investigating the crash as well as eyewitnesses to the accident. The Discovery Channel documentary also includes interviews with Captain Pawlaczyk's son; Jacek Pawlaczyk.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian2759 (talk • contribs) 06:55, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Documentaries of this accident

message: This article is in serious need of additional citations. It hasn't any additional citations for 7 years. MattChatt18 (talk) 19:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More citations 

message: I seriously doubt "debris from the explosion spread around with an estimated speed of 160 kilometers PER SECOND"! The value fails several plausibility tests:
* turbine speeds are in the tens of thousands of rpm, turbine diameters on the order of 1 meter. This gives, at best, tangential speeds of 1000 meters per second, 160 times less than the value quoted.
* kinetic energy of ONE 100 gram fragment at 160 km/s is ~ 1GJ. That's about a quarter of a ton of TNT. The turbine disk that disintegrated weighs tens of kilograms so the total kinetic energy would be equivalent to several tens of tons of TNT. At 160 km/s, that shrapnel would vaporize at least the whole tail of the aircraft, if not the whole plane.
* those fragments, traveling at interstellar speeds (sol system escape speed is 16 km/s, Omuamua interstellar asteroid entered sol system with about 25 km/s) would create quite a fireworks show in the atmosphere. At about 100 km/s, air piling up in front of an object traveling at that speed starts to undergo nuclear fusion. So we're talking about nuclear bomb-like heat, light and shock waves.
I think a more plausible value for the speed of the fragments would be 160 kilometer PER HOUR, after punching through the turbine casing, fuselage, other engines, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.186.148.141 (talk) 09:20, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Speed of fragments