Five people died and eight others were injured when a small plane crashed into an airport hangar near Warsaw on Monday night, police said.
“Five people died and eight others were injured”, two of them seriously, Sylwester Marczak, Warsaw police spokesman, told reporters following the accident at the small Chrcynno airport, 47 km away. north of the Polish capital.
Bad weather
The official said that the police received a first call about the accident at 7:39 p.m. local time, from this small airport. According to the rescuers, three people were on board the Cessna type device, suitable for parachute jumping, which fell on a corrugated iron hangar in which, as the storm approached, where they had taken refuge 13 people.
The pilot of the plane died in the accident. “An investigation has been opened into the causes of the crash,” said the spokesperson, without further details.