LOT Polish Airlines

LOT Polish Airlines
Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT

IATA LO ICAO LOT Callsign LOT
Founded	1 January 1929
Hubs	Warsaw Chopin Airport
Focus cities	Copernicus Airport Wrocław Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice Katowice International Airport Poznań-Ławica Airport Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Miles & More
Airport lounge	Executive Lounge
Alliance	Star Alliance
Subsidiaries	EuroLOT LOT Catering LOT Charters LOT Cargo
Fleet size	38 (+8 orders) (excluding subsidiaries)
Destinations	92
Company slogan	You're under good wings
Parent company	State Treasury of Poland
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Key people	Marcin Piróg (Chairman of the Managing Board of LOT Polish Airlines) Zbigniew Mazur (Member for Financial and Economic Matter) Leszek Narowski (Member of the Management Board, Sales Director) Wojciech Bańkowski (Member of the Management Board, Responsible for Restructuring) Wiesława Musiał (Member of the Management Board)
Website	www.lot.com

Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɔt], Flight), trading as LOT Polish Airlines, is the flag carrier of Poland. Based in Warsaw, LOT was established in 1929, making it one of the world's oldest airlines still in operation. Using a fleet of 55 aircraft, LOT operates a complex network to 60 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. Most of the destinations are served from its hub, Warsaw Chopin Airport. 1989 marked the beginning of the airline's quick development. LOT started retiring their old Soviet aircraft, and began their fleet renewal. With the arrival of the first Boeing 767-200ER, LOT started inter-continental services to Chicago, Newark, Toronto, and New York City with the Ilyushin Il-62M aircraft. These four main routes have been one of the most popular flights that LOT operates, especially during the summer season when many Poles seek to come back to their homeland for vacation. The airline has a large short-haul service, with recently added destinations like Kaliningrad and Tbilisi, operating 20 E-Jet 170/175, and a recent order conversion to the E-195, will enable LOT to serve more destinations.

History

Douglas C-47 of LOT at Manchester Airport in 1950

LOT Ilyushin Il-62 in 1976.

The airline was established on 1 January 1929 by the Polish government as a state-owned self-governing corporation taking over existing domestic lines Aero and Aerolot, and started operations on 2 January. The first aircraft used were Junkers F.13 and Fokker F.VII. Its first international service began on 2 August 1929 to Vienna. Accepted into IATA in 1930, it opened an international route to Bucharest that year, followed by Berlin, Athens, Beirut, Helsinki, Rome and some others. Douglas DC-2, Lockheed Model 10A Electra and Model 14H Super Electra joined the fleet in 1935, 1936 and 1938 respectively (at its peak, LOT had 10 Lockheed 10, 10 Lockheed 14, 3 DC-2 and 1 Ju 52/3mge). The airline had carried 218,000 passengers by the outbreak of war.

Services were suspended during the Second World War, and all of LOT's aircraft were either destroyed or detained. From August 1944 until December 1945 the Polish Air Force maintained basic transport in the country. On 10 March 1945 the Polish government recreated the LOT airline. In 1946, seven years after the service was suspended, the airline restarted its operations after receiving 10 Lisunov Li-2, then further 30 Li-2 and 9 Douglas C-47. Both domestic and international services restarted that year, first to Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and Prague. Five Sud-Est Languedoc joined the fleet in July 1947, followed by five Ilyushin Il-12B in April 1949 and 13-20 Ilyushin Il-14s in 1955-1957. After the stalinist period in Poland, few Western aircraft were acquired: five Convair 240 in October 1957 and 1959 and three Vickers Viscount in November 1962. Then the composition of the fleet shifted to Soviet aircraft only again.

The Ilyushin Il-18 (9 aircraft) was introduced in May 1961, leading to the establishment of routes to Africa and Middle East. The Antonov An-24 was delivered from April 1966 (20 used, on domestic routes), followed by the first jet airliners Tupolev Tu-134 in November 1968 (12 used) and the Ilyushin Il-62 long range jet airliner in May 1972. The introduction of Il-62 aircraft enabled transatlantic services to Montreal and New York City. In Autumn, 1981 air transportation collapsed and some Western airlines suspended their connections with Warsaw. On 13 December, all LOT Polish Airlines connections were suspended. In 1984 charter flights to New York and Chicago were resumed, then regular flights were resumed.Tupolev Tu-154 mid-range airliners were acquired in the 1980s. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s transatlantic charter flights reached Detroit and Los Angeles.

The current livery, with the large inscription LOT in blue on the fuselage front, and a blue tailfin, was introduced in 1977, but the circular representation of a stylized crane in flight remains unchanged over the years (with occasional flips, notably in corporate typography), designed by Tadeusz Gronowski, a visual artist from Warsaw, who won the competition for creating the airline's logo in 1929, introduced 2 years later by the airline and kept through the years, despite many changes in livery.

A LOT Ilyushin Il-18 landing at Rome Ciampino Airport. (1977)

A LOT Boeing 737-500 landing at London Heathrow Airport, England. (2007)

After the fall of the communist system in Poland in 1989 the fleet shifted back to Western aircraft, beginning with acquisitions of the Boeing 767-200 in April 1989, followed by the Boeing 767-300 in March 1990, ATR 72 in August 1991, Boeing 737-500 in December 1992 and Boeing 737-400 in April 1993. From the mid-1980s to early 1990s LOT flew from Warsaw to Chicago, Edmonton, Montreal, Newark, New York and Toronto. In December 1992 the airline became a joint stock company, as a transitional step towards partial privatisation, which was effected in late 1999, State Treasury - 67.97% of shares in the company; Regionalny Fundusz Gospodarczy S.A. - 25,1%; the employees - 6.93 %. LOT created low-cost arm Centralwings in 2004.

On 26 October 2003, it became the fourteenth member of the Star Alliance. The airline has signed a codesharing agreement with Star Alliance partner Singapore Airlines.^{[citation needed]}

Original logo design from 1929, by Tadeusz Gronowski

LOT started new services to Yerevan, Armenia, Beirut, Lebanon and resumed Tallinn, Estonia, Kaliningrad, Russia, Gothenburg, Sweden and Bratislava, Slovakia with its brand new Embraer aircraft in summer 2010. In October 2010 LOT Polish Airlines resumed service to Asia, with three weekly awaited Warsaw – Hanoi service. Also, new Tbilisi, Georgia, Damascus, Syria and Cairo, Egypt have been inaugurated. Such an expansion means that LOT offers a wider selection of routes to the Middle East along with Beirut, Yerevan and Tel Aviv. Citing profitability concerns not lack of demand, after 14 years of operation PLL LOT cancelled Chicago (ORD) - Kraków (KRK), New York (JFK) - Kraków (KRK), with the last flight being on 27 October 2010 between Chicago (ORD) - Kraków (KRK) route. The planes were re-tasked to fly the new LOT's new Warsaw (WAW) -Hanoi (HAN) route. The Vietnam route to Hanoi is expected to be more successful than Beijing which lasted just a month in 2008, prior to the Olympics. The route is about to be the first sign of long-haul expansion of Poland's national carrier. More is to come with Boeing 787s.

On 31 May 2010, CEO of LOT Sebastian Mikosz stated that the airline will be replacing its fleet to meet a goal of one-third new by 2011. Replacement already started with E-Jets 175/170. Mikosz also said that negotiations with three leasing companies began with a decision placed at the end of this or the beginning of the next year. LOT wants to replace its twenty-year-old 737s classics and ATRs. Highly possible replacement aircraft for both types of the 737s is 737NG or mix of A319s and A320s. For domestic operations, LOT seeks to purchase Dash 8-Q400 or ATR 72-600. Boeing 787 Dreamliners should arrive in the first quarter of 2012.

On 5 February 2011, new CEO of LOT Marcin Piróg announced that airline is considering in very near future to open from its hub in Warsaw following destinations: Baku, Sochi, Stuttgart, Oslo, Gothenburg, Dubai, Kuwait and Ostrava. Flights to Doneck and Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine are scheduled for summer 2011 already. LOT plans to start flying to Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai as soon as first B787s arrive (depending on signage of Polish-Russian agreement to fly over Siberia - to be signed in April 2011). Next on the destinations list are Bangkok, Singapore, Delhi and Washington DC, all depending on B787s deliveries.

Corporate affairs

Privatization

LIM Center in Warsaw

Currently, the Polish government owns 68% of shares in LOT; Regionalny Fundusz Gospodarczy S.A. owns 25%; employees own 6.93%. LOT has decided to privatize in 2011.

Subsidiaries

• EuroLOT, a wholly owned subsidiary airline, founded on 1 July 1997.
• LOT Charters, a charter subsidiary set up in 2009.
• Centralwings, a low-cost subsidiary that was operational between 2004 and 2009.

Awards

The high quality of services and professionalism of LOT crews have been honoured a number of times. In 1996 "Business Travel World" recognised LOT as the best airline in Central and Eastern Europe in Business Class. LOT received the same award in consecutive years: 1997, 1998 and 1999. In 1998 LOT for the first time became a laureate of the “Business Traveller” award for the Best Eastern European Airline. From that year it has been receiving the same award every single year. In 2007 the biggest air travel website in Poland - Pasażer.com awarded LOT with the title of “Best Network Airline in the year 2006”. LOT’s offer for business travellers has also been awarded as well as LOT won the title "Best Airline in Central and Eastern Europe" by OAG in 2001, 2002 and 2009.

Destinations

The head office of LOT

Main article: LOT Polish Airlines destinations

Codeshare agreements

LOT Polish Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines (as of April 2011), * indicates as Star Alliance:

Adria Airways * Aeroflot (SkyTeam) Air Canada * Aerosvit ANA * Armavia Asiana Airlines * Austrian Airlines * Belavia Blue1 *

bmi * Brussels Airlines * Bulgaria Air Continental Airlines * Egyptair * Jat Airways Lufthansa * Luxair Rossiya Airlines

SAS * Singapore Airlines * South African Airways * Spanair * Swiss International Air Lines * TAP * TAROM (SkyTeam) Turkish Airlines * United Airlines *

Fleet

A LOT Embraer E-170 landing at London Heathrow Airport, England. (2007)

A LOT Boeing 767-200ER; now retired.

A Boeing 737 in special paint livery

Current

As of August 2011, the LOT Polish Airlines fleet (including EuroLOT and LOT Charters) consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 8.8 years(12.8 including EuroLOT and LOT Charters) :

LOT Polish Airlines Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Options	Passengers	Notes
C	Y	Y+	Total
Boeing 737-400	7	—	—	48		99	147	Operated on behalf with LOT Charters
Boeing 737-500	2	—	—	36		72	108	To be phased out
Boeing 767-300ER	6	—	—	18		225	243	SP-LPE painted in Star Alliance livery. One leasd from aerosvit.
Boeing 787-8	—	8	6	18	21	213	252	European launch customer; Thales TopSeries IFE to be installed. New livery to be introduced.
Embraer E-170	10	—	—			70	70	Launch customer; SP-LDK painted in Star Alliance livery
Embraer E-175	11	—	—			82	82	SP-LII in 600th E-Jet livery
Embraer E-195	3	1	10			112	112	SP-LNB in special livery
EuroLOT Fleet
ATR 72-202	10	—	—			64	64
ATR 42-500	4	—	—			44-48	44-48
Embraer E-175	3	—	—			82	82	Two operating for Polish Government
Total	56	9	16

Orders

• On 7 September 2005 the airline ordered seven (with two options and five purchase rights) Boeing 787-8s for its long haul operations, which were initially planned for delivery in 2008. On 19 February 2007 the airline converted one option to make a total of eight Boeing 787-8s on order. On March 7, 2011 Boeing officially notified LOT Polish Airlines, that the delivery of the Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner will be delayed for another year. The first aircraft is due to be delivered in April,2012. Another four are expected to arrive between August and November the same year.^{[citation needed]}

• On 4 May 2010, LOT converted 4 Embraer 175 orders, to 4 Embraer 195 orders. The delivery of these aircraft began in March 2011.

• On 8 June 2010 the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland leased 2 E-175 aircraft from LOT to be used to transport the highest officials of Poland, after the Polish Tu-154M crashed near Smolensk (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash) on 10 April 2010 killing the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and many other high ranking officials. The lease is to end in 2013, while there is a option for the Government to shorten the lease or extended it. One of the aircraft already had its maiden flight under the colors of the Polish Government, carrying the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk to Brussels from Warsaw.

Previously operated

• Antonov An-12
• Antonov An-24
• Antonov An-26, 3 leased from
  the Polish Air Force for LOT Cargo
• Antonov An-32
• Boeing 737-300
• Boeing 767-200ER
• C-47 Skytrain
• Convair 240
• Douglas DC-2
• Douglas DC-8, one DC-8-62CF leased from Arrow Air in 1988
• Embraer 145
• Fokker F.VII
• Junkers F.13
• Junkers Ju-52

A LOT Tupolev Tu-134; now retired

• Ilyushin Il-62
• Ilyushin Il-14
• Ilyushin Il-18
• Ilyushin Il-12
• Lisunov Li-2
• Lockheed L-1011, 1 leased from Luzair for Warsaw-Toronto flights
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra
• Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
• McDonnell Douglas DC-10
• Piper Seneca II
• PWS-24
• SE-161, leased in 1947
• Tupolev Tu-154
• Tupolev Tu-134
• Vickers Viscount
• Yakovlev Yak-40

Incidents and accidents

Fatal

• On 15 November 1951 at approximately 09:00 local time, a LOT Lisunov Li-2 (registered SP-LKA) crashed near Tuszyn in bad weather and low visibility conditions, killing the 15 passengers and three crew on board. The aircraft had been on a scheduled flight from Łódź to Kraków.

• One passenger died on 19 March 1954, when a LOT Li-2 (registered SP-LAH) collided with a hill near Gruszowiec following the blackout of a radio beacon.

• On 14 June 1957 at 23:10 local time, LOT Flight 232 from Warsaw to Moscow, which was operated by using a Ilyushin Il-14 (registered SP-LNF) crashed during approach of Vnukovo International Airport in bad weather and visibility conditions, killing five of the eight passengers and four of the five crew members.

• On 19 December 1962, a LOT Vickers Viscount 804 (registered SP-LVB) crashed upon approaching Warsaw-Okecie Airport after having encountered a stall situation, killing the 28 passengers and five crew members on board. The aircraft had been on a scheduled flight from Brussels to Warsaw with an intermediate stop at East Berlin.

• On 20 August 1965 at 13:08 UTC, another LOT Vickers Viscount (registered SP-LVA) crashed near Jeuk, Belgium during a thunderstorm. The four people that had been inside the aircraft on a ferry flight from Lille, France to Wrocław were killed.

• On 2 April 1969 at 16:08 local time, a LOT Antonov An-24W (registered SP-LTF), crashed into Polica, a mountain near Zawoja. The aircraft with 48 passengers and five crew on board had been operating Flight 165 from Warsaw to Kraków when the pilots lost orientation because of a snowstorm. There were no survivors.

• On 13 May 1977, a LOT Antonov An-12 (registered SP-LZA) operating a cargo flight from Warsaw to Beirut via Varna crashed at approximately 08:45 local time near Aramoun, Lebanon, killing all nine people on board, some of who were working for a Polish secret service. The aircraft had been approaching Beirut International Airport, but the pilots had encountered language difficulties when communicating with the local air traffic controllers, so that they likely lost the orientation. The aircraft had been operated by the Polish Air Force and transported weapons for the Lebanese Civil War.

• On 14 March 1980 at around 11:00 local time, LOT Flight 7 from New York City to Warsaw crashed during a landing attempt at Warsaw-Okecie Airport, killing all the 77 passengers and ten crew members that had been on board the Ilyushin Il-62 (registered SP-LAA), including singer Anna Jantar. The pilots had encountered a landing gear problem and started a go-around procedure, during which the no. 2 engine disintegrated, damaging rudder and elevator control lines and causing the Ilyushin to enter an uncontrolled descend.

• On 26 March 1981, a LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTU) crash-landed near Słupsk following the loss of one propeller, killing one passenger. The other 46 passengers and five crew survived.

• On May 1987 at 11:12 local time, LOT Flight 5055 from Warsaw to New York crashed in Warsaw, around 5 km from the Warsaw-Okęcie Airport, killing the 172 passengers and 11 crew members on board, what makes it the deadliest accident for both the airline and the country. The aircraft involved, an Ilyushin Il-62 (registered SP-LBG), had encountered an engine explosion, which started a fire in the cargo hold. The pilots had tried to return to Warsaw-Okecie Airport, but lost control due to the extensive damage the elevators had suffered.

• On 2 November 1988, LOT Flight 703 had to execute an emergency landing on a field near Rzeszów following an engine failure, killing one passenger. The other 24 passengers and four crew on board the An-24 (registered SP-LTD) survived, though most of them received serious injuries.

No fatalities reported

• On 26 May 1948, a LOT Lisunov Li-2 (registered SP-LBC) crashed near Popowice.

• On 28 March 1950, a LOT Douglas C-47 Skytrain (registered SP-LCC) was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing.

• Only one day later, on 29 March 1950, the airline lost another aircraft (a Lisunov Li-2, registration SP-LBA) in a crash.

• On 19 May 1952, a LOT Li-2 (registered SP-LBD) was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing near Sowina.

• On 18 July of the same year, another LOT aircraft had to be written off, this time a Ilyushin Il-12 (registered SP-LHC) following a crash landing at Warsaw-Okecie Airport.

• On 15 March 1953, a LOT Douglas C-47 (registered SP-LCH) crashed near Katowice.

• On 14 April 1955, another LOT Li-2 (SP-LAE) crashed near Katowice, with none of the 15 persons on board being killed.

• On 11 April 1958, a LOT Convair CV-240 (registered SP-LPB) crash-landed near Warsaw and was damaged beyond repair, after it had lost one propeller in mid-flight. There were only four people on board who had operated a training flight with the aircraft; all of them survived.

• On 25 August 1960, a LOT Li-2 (registered SP-LAL) crashed near Tczew.

• On 16 December 1963, another LOT Li-2 (registered SP-LBG) was damaged beyond repair when it overshot the runway upon landing at Warsaw-Okecie Airport. The twelve passengers and three crew on board survived.

• On 24 January 1969 at 17:30 local time, a LOT Antonov An-24 (registered SP-LTE) collided with trees during a landing attempt at Wrocław in poor visibility conditions, and crashed. The aircraft had been operating Flight 149 from Warsaw with 44 passengers and four crew members on board, all of which survived.

• On 19 April 1973, a LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTN) crashed during a training flight near Rzeszów.

• On 23 January 1980, a LOT Tupolev Tu-134 (registered SP-LGB) was damaged beyond repair when it overshot the runway upon landing at Warsaw-Okecie Airport and erupted in flames.

• On 31 December 1993 at 10:20 local time, the Boeing 767-300ER (registered SP-LPA) operating LOT Flight 2 from Warsaw to Chicago received substantial damaged to its nose gear in a hard landing incident at O'Hare International Airport.

• On 01 November 2011 a Boeing 767-300ER (registered SP-LPC) operating as LOT Flight 16 from Newark Liberty (KEWR) to Warsaw Chopin (EPWA) reported the failure of the hydraulic system that operated the flaps and landing gear. When the backup system was activated, only the flaps were operable. All attempts to lower the landing gear failed. This forced the jet to make a belly landing which is rare for modern jetliners. The crew managed to land the aircraft safely with no fatalities.

Hijackings

During the Cold War, when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain, several LOT planes were hijacked and forced to land in a Western country, predominantly in Germany and especially in West Berlin, because of it being situated like an island in the Eastern Bloc. The hijackers were usually not prosecuted there, but could claim for political asylum, along with all other passengers who wished to do so.

• On 16 September 1949, five armed people forced a LOT flight from Gdańsk to Łódź to divert to Nyköping in Sweden.

• On 16 December of the same year, another aircraft on the same route was hijacked, this time it diverted to Bornholm Airport in Denmark. Of the 15 passengers and three crew members on board, 16 decided to claim political asylum.

• On 16 October 1969, a LOT Antonov An-24 (registered SP-LTK) was hijacked by two passengers enroute a flight from Warsaw to East Berlin and forced to divert to Berlin Tegel Airport, serving West Berlin.

• Another hijacking of a LOT An-24 occurred on 20 November of the same year, this time on a flight from Wrocław to Bratislava, when two passengers forced the pilots to land at Vienna International Airport.

• On 5 June 1970, a LOT An-24 with 24 people on board was hijacked during a flight from Szczecin to Gdańsk and forced to land at Copenhagen Airport, where police forces stormed the airplane and arrested the perpetrator. Only four days later, on 9 June, another hijacking attempt occurred on a LOT flight from Katowice to Warsaw, but the two persons involved could be overpowered.

• On 7 August 1970, one passenger on board a LOT An-24 flying from Szczecin to Katowice forced the pilots to divert to Germany. As he did not specify his demands any further, the aircraft landed at Berlin Schönefeld Airport in East Germany, where he was arrested.

• On 19 August 1970, five passengers on board a LOT Ilyushin Il-14 enroute a scheduled flight from Gdańsk to Warsaw forced the pilots to divert to Bornholm Airport.

• On 26 August 1970, three persons onboard a LOT An-24 on a flight from Katowice to Warsaw demanded to be taken to Austria. The pilots returned to Katowice Airport instead, where the perpetrators were arrested.

• On 4 November 1976, a LOT Tupolev Tu-134 (registered SP-LHD) was foced by two passengers to leave its scheduled route from Copenhagen to Warsaw and land at Vienna International Airport instaed, where they surrendered to local police forces.

• On 24 April 1977 another LOT Tu-134 (registered SP-LGA) was hijacked, this time on a flight from Kraków to Nuremberg in West Germany. The pilots returned to Kraków-Balice Airport, where the aircraft was stormed and the hijacker arrested. Another hijacking attempt could be put down on 18 October of that year on board of a LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTH) enroute from Katowice to Warsaw.

• On 30 August 1978, LOT Flight 165 enroute from Gdánsk to East Berlin was hijacked by two East German cititzens who forced the pilots to land the Tu-134 involved (registered SP-LGC) at Berlin Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin. Next to the hijackers, another six people decided to claim political asylum, thus making it one of the largest successful escapes over the Berlin Wall.

• On 4 December 1980, a LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTB) was hijacked during a flight from Zielona Góra to Warsaw and forced to land at Berlin-Tegel Airport. The same aircraft was involved in another hijacking attempt on 10 January 1981, when four passengers demanded to be taken to a Western country during a flight from Katowice to Warsaw. This time, the pilots continued to Warsaw-Okecie Airport, though, where the perpetratos were arrested.

• Another LOT aircraft (an An-24 registered SP-LTI) was forced to land at Tegel Airport on 21 July 1981, after having been hijacked during a flight from Katowice to Gdánsk. Again, on 5 August of that year, another hijacking attempt occurred on board the same aircraft on the same flight, but the perpetrator could be restraint and arrested upon landing at Gdańsk Airport. Only some days later, on 11 August, another hijacking attempt on the same route was taken down, again on a LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTT).

• On 22 August 1981, a hijacker succeeded in his demands that the aircraft involved (a LOT An-24 registered SP-LTC) be diverted to Berlin-Tegel Airport from its original route from Wrocław to Warsaw. On 18 September of the same year, twelve passengers rioting on board another LOT An-24 (registered SP-LTG) on a flight from Katowice to Warsaw and demanded the aircraft to divert to West Berlin. A Soviet Mil Mi-8 tried to intercept the aircraft before landing at Tegel Airport, but failed to do so. Two similar attempts failed over the following days: On 22 September four passengers tried to highjack a LOT flight from Warsaw to Koszalin, but the pilots returned the An-12 (registered SP-LTK) to Warsaw-Okecie Airport instead, were the perpetrators were arrested. On 29 September, one hijacker demanded the LOT flight from Warsaw to Szczecin to divert to West Berlin; again the pilots landed the An-12 (registered SP-LTP) in Warsaw.

• On 30 April 1982, eight passengers forced a LOT An-12 (registered SP-LTG), that was operating a flight from Wrocław to Warsaw, to divert to Berlin-Tegel Airport.

• On 9 June 1982, two highjackers on board a LOT flight from Katowice to Warsaw demanded the pilots to divert to West Germany. Instaed, the aircraft landed in Poland were the perpetrators were arrested.

• On 25 August 1982, two passengers forced the LOT flight from Budapest to Warsaw, that was operated using an Ilyushin Il-18 (registered SP-LSI) to divert to Munich Riem Airport. A similar incident occurred on 22 November of that year, when the flight from Wrocław to Warsaw (operated by the An-24 registered SP-LTK) was forced to land at Berlin-Tegel Airport.

• On 25 February 1993, a man forced his way into a LOT ATR 42 at Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport during the boarding process for Flight 702 to Warsaw, threatening to detonate a hand grenade. Police forces stormed the aircraft in which there was a total number of 30 people at the time of the assault, during which the perpetrator (who turned out to be unarmed) was shot at and could thus be overpowered.

See also

• Transport in Poland

External links

• Official website