LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 to Krakow's Balice airport. The captain was Czesław Doliński (with 20 years of flying in PLL LOT and more than two million kilometres of experience). At 15.49, the first officer received a routine instruction: after passing Jędrzejów, less than 80 km north of the destination, descend to For today, the official death toll of 53 killed is controversial. LOT manifest included 53 passengers and 5 crew members, but two days after the crash Polish press agencies published (based on LOT's information) 46 surnames (part of them without an address or name). LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 LOT Polish Airlines Flight
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