* 1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko ( SP-LBG ), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

Warsaw's airport is the main international hub for LOT Polish Airlines and currently serves as the destination for around 75 % of all major international flights into Poland.

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* May 9 – A Soviet-made Il-62 airliner, operated by LOT Polish Airlines, crashes near the Kabacki forest in Poland, killing all 183 people on board.

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* Aero ( Polish airline ), a Polish airline founded in 1925 which later was merged into LOT

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Nicknamed " Matinee Idol ", Czyz was a member of the United States amateur boxing team whose other members died in the LOT Polish Airlines plane crash in Poland in 1980.

Because of Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, the airport during the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed the presence of many Eastern Bloc airline companies, such as Aeroflot, Czecho-Slovak Airlines, Interflug and LOT Polish Airlines.

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A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 737-400 at the airport in 2011.

LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, EgyptAir, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Swiss International Airlines have already expressed their interest in relaunching flights to Baghdad, and for Star Alliance airlines to take advantage of their early presence at Ebril, in the near future.

On March 14, 1980, his younger brother, Paul Palomino, was killed in the crash of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 as a member of the U. S. boxing team on its way to Poland for a competition.

* Miles & More ( Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, Augsburg Airways, Contact Air, Eurowings, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, as well as regional airlines: Adria Airways, Croatia Airlines and Luxair )-Miles expire 36 months after date of earning for non-elite members with no Lufthansa-branded credit card, or 36 months after loss of elite status for currently elite members.

* April 24 – LOT Polish Airlines resumes flights to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

* May 9 – The LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin Il-62M Tadeusz Kościuszko, operating as LOT Flight 5055 bound for New York City, catches fire due to an engine failure soon after take-off from Okęcie Airport and crashes into the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 persons on board.

As a result of the crash, LOT Polish Airlines replaces all of its An-24s with ATR 42 and ATR 72 aircraft.

Asiana Airlines joined on 1 March, LOT Polish Airlines, the official flag carrier of Poland, joined in October, and Spanair, Spain's low cost carrier, joined on 1 May.

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Terminal A was opened in 1977 and has 16 gates ( A01 – A16 ) used by Lufthansa and Lufthansa Regional, its airline partners ( Cirrus Airlines ) and Star Alliance members ( Aegean Airlines, Air China, Austrian Airlines, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Spanair, EgyptAir, TAP Air Portugal and Swiss International Airlines ).

Other airlines to have flown to Mirabel at some point were Aerolíneas Argentinas, Aeroméxico, Air India, Air Liberté, Business Express Airlines ( operating as Northwest Airlink ), Corsairfly, Cubana de Aviación, Finnair, Jaro International, Jat Airways, LAN Chile, LOT Polish Airlines, Peoplexpress Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, TAROM, and Varig.

* March 14 – The Ilyushin Il-62 Mikołaj Kopernik, operating as LOT Flight 7, crashes into the moat of a military fortress near Okęcie Airport in Warsaw, Poland, as the crew attempts a go around after a mechanical failure forces them to abort a landing.

* November 2 – LOT Flight 703, an Antonov An-24W, crash-lands at Białobrzegi, Poland, when its engines shut down due to atmospheric icing while the aircraft is on approach to Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport.

* The 1980 LOT Flight 7 that crashed due to fatigue in an engine turbine shaft resulting in engine disintegration leading to loss of control

On November 1, 2011, LOT Polish Airlines Flight LO16 successfully belly landed at Warsaw Chopin Airport due to technical failures, all 231 people on board escaped with no injury.

* On March 14, 1980, LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007, an Ilyushin Il-62, attempted a go-around when the crew experienced troubles with a gear indicator.

* On May 9, 1987, improperly assembled bearings in Il-62M engine number 2 on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 overheated and exploded during cruise over Lipniki village, causing the shaft to break in two ; this caused the low pressure turbine disc to spin to enormous speeds and disintegrate, damaging engine number 1 and cutting the control pushers.

* April 2 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165, an Antonov An-24W, crashes during a snowstorm on the northern slope of Polica mountain near Zawoja, Poland, killing all 53 people on board.

* August 30 – Two East Germans hijack LOT Flight 165, a Tupolev Tu-134 with 63 passengers on board, during a flight from Gdańsk, Poland, to East Berlin, taking a flight attendant hostage.

* LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007, a 1980 accident which began with a burnt-out gear indicator lightbulb

On 30 August 1978, Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede and Ingrid Ruske, both East Germans, used a starting pistol ( not an actual gun ) to hijack a Polish passenger aircraft ( LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 ) from Gdańsk bound for East Berlin's Schönefeld Airport and diverted it instead to the U. S. Air Force base at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin.

On November 1, 2011 a Boeing 767 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016 made a belly landing after a central hydraulic system failure at Warsaw, Poland's Frederic Chopin International Airport, with no injuries.

On 1 November 2011 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 016, a Boeing 767, declared an emergency with a loss of landing gear en route from Newark Liberty International Airport to Warsaw Chopin Airport.

The first British Airways Ltd. | British Airways flight from Warsaw to London waits alongside a LOT Junkers Ju 52 at Okęcie in April 1939

Statistics show that aircraft fitted with a second-generation EGPWS have not suffered a CFIT accident if TAWS or EGPWS are properly handled ( there are at least three CFIT accidents of planes with EGPWS / TAWS: Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, Mirosławiec air accident ).

Pink indicates the area east of the Oder-Neisse line which the Soviet Union annexed for itself and its Poland | Polish Satellite state | satellite government and Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII | expelled ethnic Germans from this area.

With Gabreski's support and to ease a shortage of experienced pilots caused by many veterans reaching the completion of their tours, the 61st FS in April accepted five other Polish Air Force pilots into the squadron as the " Polish Flight ".

Initially the air raids were carried out mostly by 1586 Polish Flight of the PAF stationed in Bari and Brindisi in Italy flying Liberators, Halifaxes and Dakotas.

At the outset, serving RAF officers were appointed to serve as CO ( S / L RG Kellett ) and Flight Commanders ( F / L JA Kent and F / L AS Forbes ) alongside the Poles, as the Polish pilots were unfamiliar with RAF Fighter Command language, procedures and training.

In the afternoon, a flight formation led by S / L Kellet claimed four victories, while the five-strong " B " Flight led by F / O Urbanowicz, claimed two Do 17s, for two Polish pilots shot down ( Sgt.

Aircraft currently in the Flight have served with the RAF, the United States Army Air Forces, and the Royal Canadian Air Force, as well as having been privately owned ; whilst in the RAF, they were flown by Czechoslovakian, Polish, South African, American and Canadian pilots.

On 29 April 1942 Flight Lieutenant Skalski was made Commanding Officer of the 317 ( Polish ) Squadron for five months.

In October 1943 he was given command of the Polish Fighting Team ( PFT ), or so called " Cyrk Skalskiego " ( Skalski's Circus )-a Special Flight consisting of fifteen experienced Polish fighter pilot volunteers.