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Wizz Air Airbus Turns Back
On April 28, 2013, a Wizz Air Airbus A320-232 took off from Warsaw then descended rapidly from about 11000ft. Passengers smelled smoke. A passenger named Barbara was quoted (machine translation) “Zachybota?o plane dropped like a machine. Then I felt a burning smell. Other passengers can feel it. After a while we went to the... »
Lot Airlines Temporary Boeing Fix
Pending solutions for the incidents involving the aircraft’s lithium-ion battery produced by Tokyo- based GS Yuasa Corp, while waiting for Boeing 787′s to come out of hibernation, from April 12 to the end of May Lot Airlines is leasing an Airbus SAS from Portugal’s Hi Fly. The A330 flies 18 in business and 288... »
Russian Photos Not Released
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Martin Lidzba What: Polish Air Force Tupolev TU-154M Where: Smolensk When: Apr 10th 2010 Who: 88 passengers and 8 crew Why: The flight that killed 96 people including President Kaczynski has come to news attention as Poland protests Russia’s publication of grisly images of... »
Poland: Norwegian Plane hit by Baggage Truck
What: Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737 scheduled for Gdansk to Gardermoen Where: Gdansk International Airport, Poland When: 13-SEP-2012, 11:50 Who: no fatalities, no injuries Why: The empty plane was at Gdansk International Airport when it was struck by a baggage vehicle. The plane sustained damage and was subsequently taken out of rotation. »
Ultralight Crash Kills Pilot, Student
What: LANG Zenair CH 601 Zodiac Where: Pi?a Airport, Poland When: May 3 2012 Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities Why: 42-year-old Thomas D. Miroslawiec, pilot instructor with the Czech branch of Pila flight school was flying with a 57 year old student, and crashed around 20.00 in a forested area. The accident occurred when... »
Tuesday Poland Remembered
As activists chanted anti-government slogans, on April 10, 2012, Poland remembered the crash that wiped out 96 Russians. Memorials were placed in Warsaw at the Presidential Palace and in Smolensk, Russia, where the crash wiped out dozens of top Polish civilian and military leaders. Investigations concluded the crash was due to bad weather, inadequate... »
Cirrus Crashes in Poland
What: Cirrus Where: Katowice International Airport southern Poland When: Nov 13, 2011 Who: 2 men and 2 women were aboard Why: After takeoff, the plane disappeared 4.3 miles from the airport. The wreckage was found in Zyglinie Forest at 8:20 pm. The four passengers all in their late forties and early fifties, died in... »
Warsaw: An opinion
What: LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from Newark,NJ (USA) to Warsaw (Poland) with 220 passengers and 11 crew Where: Warsaw When: Nov 1st 2011 Who: 220 passengers and 11 crew Belly landings happen frequently enough that there is a checklist of procedures. What makes it difficult? Visualize how a match works. Then... »
Gear Up Landing in Warsaw
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer powwwiii What: LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from Newark,NJ (USA) to Warsaw (Poland) with 220 passengers and 11 crew Where: Warsaw When: Nov 1st 2011 Who: 220 passengers and 11 crew Why: On the first approach to Warsaw, the flight crew aborted... »
Final report released on Polish Tupolev Tu-154 Crash
What: Republic of Poland Tupolev en route from Warsaw to Smolensk Where: Smolensk, Russia, When: October 4, 2010 Who: 7 crew Why: The report blames the pilots. Final Report .pdf (very large) »
