Category: Plane crash

21 years have passed since the Iryda accident, which began the destruction of the aviation industry. This topic will outrage public opinion for a long time, because what was done was incredibly stupid. Raising the topic of Iryd again encouraged me with the fact that one of the designers from Mielec, M.Eng. Stanisław Śmist sent…

The outbreak of the Second Cold War at the beginning of the 1980s forced the rearmament of the Warsaw Pact countries. In Poland, MiG-23 MF planes were introduced to the service of fighter aviation in a limited number and, for financial reasons, to two MiG-21 bis regiments. However, the real retooling took place in the…

If you want to visit Płoki, pay homage to Our Lady and bow at the grave of Ignacy Kasprzyk, these are not the only things you can see here. The difficulty is that the town of Płoki is not located on the main road and you have to come here in private. The area is…

On June 19, 2016, near Krakow, near Trzebinia, in the small town of Płoki, an unusual ceremony took place. The restored tomb of aviation master Ignacy Kasprzyk was unveiled, who was buried in the parish cemetery at the Temple – Sanctuary of Our Lady in Płoki 78 years ago.

There are two airports in Smolensk. One located south of the city center. They can be described as civil, sport or sanitary airports. It is an airport with poor infrastructure. It was used by small planes. RWY is 1 600 m long. Concrete pavement. Shortly after the catastrophe (on April 10, 2010), many journalists suspected…

When in the first part (Part 1) we wrote about the huge consequences for the Republic of Poland, much larger than September 11, 2001, for the USA, we meant the lack of people who were the engines of many undertakings. There are irreplaceable people. People who with their developed talents strengthened the spirit in the…

It’s only been 10 days since the crash. It’s hard to accept what happened. The mourning and funerals of other victims continue. The investigative work will probably last for many more years. But it is difficult not to present the facts, comments and assessments collected so far. The entire article is subjective and you can…

On December 24, 1969, the An-24 W No. 97305702 nb 012 aircraft was accepted into the status of the An-24 W No. 97305702 nb 012 aircraft to the 36th Special Regiment of Transport Aviation based in Okęcie. The aircraft was new, made to a slightly higher standard and was intended for the transport of important…

The long-range turbojet Ił-62 M SP-LBG Tadeusz Kościuszko was purchased from the CCCP’s group of seven aircraft of this type and was delivered in 1984. The flight time until the crash was 6,971 hours. The aircraft made 1,752 landings. Planned service life of 30,000 hours, with major inspections every 10,000 hours.

On March 26, 1981, an Antonow An-24 PLL LOT plane crashed, performing a regular flight on the Warsaw (Okęcie) – Słupsk route. The accident happened in the evening during the landing approach at the airport in Słupsk. There were 47 passengers and 4 crew on board.