LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 LOT Polish Airlines Flight LO 165 crashed 2 April 1969 at 16:08 local time (UTC+1) while en route from Warsaw to Krakow Balice airport during a snowstorm. It crashed on the northern slope of Polica near Zawoja in southern Poland, hitting the mountain at an altitude of . The plane was an Antonov An-24 aircraft, with registration SP-LTF. All 53 people (47 passengers and 6 crew) on board were killed. There were three Americans and one London resident among the passengers, all others being Polish citizens. The official accident report, published in 1970, blamed the
Royal Flight (airline) Royal Flight (airline) Joint stock company Royal Flight airlines (), formerly Abakan-Avia (), is a charter airline based in Abakan, Russia. It operates charter services between Russian cities and holiday destinations in Sri Lanka, Egypt, Thailand, Turkey, India, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Macau, Taiwan, Maldives, and Vietnam. Its main bases are Abakan Airport (ABA) and El Obeid Airport, Sudan. The airline was established in 1992 as Abakan-Avia and started operations in 1993. It was established from a former Aeroflot unit, and started domestic cargo flights in 1993 and international flights in 1994. Sobol acquired a 70% share in 1999.