LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 aviation accident by State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 767-35DER, registered SP-LPC, named "Poznań", serial number 28656. It was first delivered to LOT on 15 May 1997. The damage to the plane was so extensive that the airline chose not to make repairs. The aircraft was eventually scrapped in November 2013. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was scheduled to arrive at Warsaw Chopin Airport from Newark Liberty International Airport on 1 November 2011 at 13:35 CET. Technical difficulties were detected by Captain Tadeusz Wrona within 30 minutes after takeoff from Newark. The crew indicated
Polish Operation of the NKVD of the Polish diversionist and espionage groups and POW units"," was approved on August 9, 1937 by the Party's Central Committee Politburo, and was signed by Nikolai Yezhov on August 11, 1937. It was distributed to the local subdivisions of the NKVD simultaneously with Yezhov's thirty-page "secret letter," explaining what the "Polish operation" was all about. The letter from Yezhov was titled, ""On fascist-resurrectionist, spying, diversional, defeationist, and terrorist activity of Polish intelligence in the USSR"". Stalin demanded the NKVD to "keep on digging out and cleaning out this Polish filth." The "Order" adopted the simplified so-called "album procedure" (as