Historical Events tagged with "zawoja"

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Accidents & Tragedies

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 Crash

April 2nd, 1969 55 years ago

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165, a scheduled domestic flight from Warsaw to Kraków, crashed into the Polica mountain near Zawoja, Poland, resulting in the deaths of all 53 people on board. The incident occurred due to adverse weather conditions and pilot error, leading to the aircraft losing altitude and colliding with the mountainside. This crash remains one of the deadliest aviation disasters in Poland's history.

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