On May 9, 1987 PLL LOT Ił-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" airplane flying from Warsaw to New York crashed in Kabacki forest as a result of cabin decompression, loss of two engines and fire. The crash followed a few dozen minutes of...
Forest area located at the southern border of Warsaw — Stefan Starzyński's Las Kabacki — was a silent witness to the biggest plane crash in the history of Polish civil aviation.
Shortly after take-off Ił-62M SP-LBG "Tadeusz Kościuszko" airplane, flying over Warlubie with 183 people on board, encountered a technical failure. As a result of the explosion of engine number 2, also engine number 1 was damaged. The reason for the...
Zygmunt Pawlaczyk (1928–1987) — military pilot from 1951 and from 1955 a pilot of Polish airlines PLL LOT, captain of Ił-62M SP-LBG "Tadeusz Kościuszko" airplane which crashed on May 9, 1987 in Kabacki forest during an attempt to carry out...
