LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was a passenger flight which made an emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland, on 1 November 2011 after its landing gear failed to extend. All 231 aboard survived without any significant injuries. The aircraft involved, a Boeing 767-300ER, was operating as LOT Polish Airlines' scheduled international service from Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, to Warsaw. The preliminary report found that a hydraulic leak occurred shortly after takeoff, which resulted in loss of all the hydraulic fluid that powered the primary landing gear system. It was classified as an
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