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On 10 April 2010, Polish Air Force Flight 101, carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and other top officials, crashes in a wooded area while on final approach to Smolensk North Airport in heavy fog and low visibility. All 96 passengers and crew members on board are killed.
The aircraft was a 186-seat Ilyushin Il-62M built in the third quarter of 1983, registered SP-LBG and named after Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military leader and national hero. [3] [1] [4] The Il-62 has four tail-mounted engines, with two on the left side (numbers 1 and 2) and two on the right side (numbers 3 and 4). The proximity of the two ...
Listed below are the worst disasters in Poland's history, listed by death toll.This list excludes warfare, the Holocaust and intentional acts of destruction, but may include accidents in which the military, Polish or foreign, was involved (e.g. Osiecznica bus disaster - a collision between a Polish bus and a Soviet Army's truck).
1989 elections in Poland (2 P) S. 1989 in Polish sport (5 C, 1 P) T. 1989 in Polish television (2 C) Pages in category "1989 in Poland" The following 6 pages are in ...
Ursus rail crash (Polish: Katastrofa kolejowa w Ursusie) was a rear-end train collision, that occurred at 6:20 a.m. on 20 August 1990 in Warsaw neighborhood (today district) of Ursus. 16 people were killed and 64 were injured. [3] To date, it is the worst railway accident in Poland after 1989. [4]
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
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Poland's first free parliamentary elections were held in 1991. More than 100 parties participated, representing the full spectrum of political views. No single party received more than 13% of the total vote. The government of Prime Minister Jan Olszewski was the first fully free and democratic Polish government since 1926. This cabinet was ...