{"id":6451,"date":"2024-12-31T16:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polot.net\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:51:12","slug":"the-tragedy-of-pzl-37-los-on-20-06-1938-ignacy-kasprzyk-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polot.net\/?p=6451&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The tragedy of PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b on 20.06.1938. Ignacy Kasprzyk. 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Krak\u00f3w 2024-12-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ignacy Kasprzyk.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b crash on June 20, 1938.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ignacy Kasprzyk was born in P\u0142oki on December 3, 1909. At that time, P\u0142oki was in the Austrian partition and was subject to the Free City of Krak\u00f3w. Father J\u00f3zef, mother Honorata. Ignacy Kasprzyk graduated from primary school, and then vocational school in the specialty of mechanics. As a ten-year-old, he watched as the Republic of Poland regained independence. He was called up for military service and was assigned to the 2nd Air Regiment in Krak\u00f3w in Rakowice. After training, during the unitary period, he was assigned to the technical staff servicing aircraft. This occupation interested him very much, to the extent that he remained in the professional service of the Polish Army. He was seconded to the 6th Air Regiment based at the modern Skni\u0142owo airport in Lviv. Here he graduated from the school of aircraft mechanics and was appointed a professional non-commissioned officer. In Lviv, he deepened his practice. He was diligent, hard-working, conscientious, with an above-average interest in aviation. After several years of work, he became a high-class specialist, which did not escape the attention of his superiors. He was sent to Warsaw with an assignment to the Independent Experimental Squadron, where he took part in work related to testing aircraft newly introduced to service in the Polish Military Aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 20, 1938, Ignacy Kasprzyk died as an aviator in an accident over the town of D\u0105br\u00f3wka near Piaseczno, during a test flight of the prototype of the PZL-37A \u0141o\u015b bomber. In accordance with the will of his family, he was buried in the parish cemetery in his native P\u0142oki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b aircraft was a medium, twin-engine, super-modern bomber aircraft, developed by PZL-Ok\u0119cie under the supervision of engineer Jerzy D\u0105browski. The aircraft first flew on 13 December 1936. The aircraft was tested by the Aviation Technical Institute. During the tests, over 600 defects were removed and around 250 modifications were made to the structure. The aim was to refine the design as much as possible so that the aircraft could be handed over to the Polish Army and potential foreign recipients as a fully successful one. Several test series aircraft had already been built, which already had doubled main landing gear wheels, but still a single vertical tail. On 20 June 1938, one of the PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b aircraft was prepared for another test flight. The crew consisted of three pilots: platoon pilot Stanis\u0142aw Macek (1907-1938, one of the most experienced acrobatic pilots, member of Jerzy Bajan’s group), private assistant mechanic Mieczys\u0142aw Sioch (1914-1938) and our hero, flight engineer Ignacy Kasprzyk. The crew was given a flight for higher piloting, i.e. acrobatics at a medium altitude. While performing a loop, the wing of the aircraft fell apart. The machine fell to the ground, burying the crew in its remains. The aircraft program was suspended for a month. The commission investigating the causes of the disaster discovered faulty riveting of the wing caissons made of corrugated sheet metal by Junkers. It was impossible to determine whether this was another sabotage, of which several had already been noted. Especially in engine production. The remaining aircraft were dismantled to remove the faulty riveting. The same was done with 20 sets of already finished wings. As a result, the delay was about three months. Despite this, the PZL-37 \u0141o\u015b wrote a beautiful page in the Defensive War of 1939, against the Germans and their Muscovite brothers. The deaths of these young pilots were not in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Karol Placha Hetman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS. Part of the information was taken from the book “In Memory of the Fallen Airmen 1933-1939” by A Popiel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ignacy Kasprzyk. 2024 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ignacy Kasprzyk. 2024 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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