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
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