LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was a Boeing 767 (registered as SP-LPC) passenger jet on a scheduled service from Newark, United States, to Warsaw, Poland, that on 1 November 2011 made a successful gear-up emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, after its landing gear failed to extend.
It was built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 1997 and in its 14 years of service, it had logged 85429 airframe hours in 8002 takeoff and landing cycles.
[5] The decision was made to continue to Warsaw in order to use up the heavy load of fuel needed for the transatlantic flight.
[7] The crew informed Warsaw air traffic control (ATC) that they were unable to lower the landing gear due to a hydraulic system failure.
The captain decided to circle the airport for over an hour, to consume excess fuel and to allow time for ground emergency services to prepare for the landing, including covering the runway with a fire suppression foam.
This accident gave rise to a new saying (Wrona in Polish means crow): "Leć jak Orzeł, ląduj jak Wrona" (Fly like an eagle, land like a crow)[16][13] The preliminary report by the SCAAI found that a hydraulic leak occurred shortly after takeoff, after the landing gear and flaps were retracted.
Contributing factors were the lack of safeguards to prevent accidental opening of circuit breakers, the C829 circuit breaker being in a low position where the flight crew would have difficulty noticing its condition, LOT's operations center inadequate procedures, and LOT's failure to incorporate a Boeing service bulletin on the prevention of excessive bending in the hydraulic system hose.