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LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 was a
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that crash-landed about north of
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railway station, on 2 November 1988. In the accident one person was killed and several were seriously injured.


Flight

The plane, an Antonov An-24W, registered SP-LTD, named "Dunajec", took off from
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,
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for regional flight 703 to Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport. It had 25 passengers on board (including the famous radio presenter
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) and four crew members. The captain was Kazimierz Rożek (with 30 years of experience) and the co-pilot was Waldemar Wolski. The emergency started about two minutes before the planned landing, at 10:25, when the plane was flying east to
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27. According to officials, pilots turned on the anti- icing installation too late and, during approach, both engines immediately shut down because of icing of the engine intakes. Just after that, Rożek and Wolski, knowing that they would not reach the airport, started an emergency
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, which ended in a glade.


Crash-landing and evacuation

The aircraft landed on a glade at high speed . It became
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above a drainage ditch and crashed further on. In the moment of crash-landing, one person – a 69-year-old woman from Rzeszów – was killed. Within several seconds after the crash, two flight attendants and two militia officers evacuated all passengers from the aircraft, which quickly caught on fire.


Aftermath

The crash-landing has been the last fatal air crash in Polish commercial aviation so far. It was one of the main reasons for which LOT Polish Airlines removed all An-24 served planes (this particular aircraft was 22 years old) and replaced them with
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and ATR 72.


References


Lotnictwo.net.pl


External links


Photo of wreckage
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