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
Iberia (airline) airline with a flight Madrid-Lisbon. In 1940 the government gave the monopoly of national air transport to Iberia (this fact changed 6 years later when the government liberalizate the national air traffic for the private airlines), this privilege helped the company to start building as an important international airline, which had not been until then. The airline was nationalised on 30 September 1944 and became part of Instituto Nacional de Industria. The policy of the company was to separate itself from the German orbit to which it had been linked in its first years, and establish relations with the United