Ryszard Chmielewski , the flight engineer , was scheduled to fly to Warsaw on that day ; because he suffered from jet lag and insufficient rest after the previous flight , he switched shifts with one of his colleagues and flew out of New York one day later . Seven years later , as a flight engineer and instructor , monitoring the progress of flight engineer Wojciech Kłossek , he was on board LOT Flight 5055 , which crashed killing all 183 people on board
LOT Flight 5055
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7