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
Airline codes Airline codes This is a list of airline codes. The table lists IATA's two-character airline designators, ICAO's three-character airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included. IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the world's airlines. The standard is described in IATA's "Standard Schedules Information Manual" and the codes themselves are described in IATA's "Airline Coding Directory". (Both are published twice-annually.) The IATA codes originally based on the ICAO designators which were issued in 1947 as two-letter airline identification codes (see