The aircraft collided with a shed where around 20 people were sheltering from the rain. There are at least 12 injured.
At least five people died and 12 others were injured this monday in a plane crash in which a plane crashed into a hangar in it Chrcynno airportlocated in the suburbs of warsawthe cital of Poland.
“The incident occurred in the administrative district of Gmina Nasielskwithin the county of Nowy Dworis where the Chrcynno airport is located, 40 kilometers north of Warsaw and in central-eastern Poland,” said the Fire Department spokeswoman, Monika Nowakowska-Brynda.
According to the first information received, “the crew members of the small Cessna 208 plane jumped in their parachutesand the vehicle impacted heavily against a hangar, where a group of about twenty people were sheltering from the rain“.
“Five people are dead, 12 are injured, two of them in serious condition. That is the latest balance of the plane crash in Chrcynno near Nasielsk, in the Mazovia region. It was also known today that a child is among the injured,” he explained. ZET Radio.
Meanwhile, he indicated that there was “three pilots on board the plane: one of them diedone was injured and the last one esced the accident unharmed.”
Meanwhile, the journalist Karolina Olszewska-Merk pointed out: “In addition to the pilot, there are four more fatalities. These are passers-by who took refuge in the hangar from the rain. Four LPR helicopters and ten ambulances. Warsaw hospitals are ready and are already accepting patients”
For his part, he Health Minister Adam Niedzielskiremarked on his official Twitter account that “the rescue operation still going on” and that “the services subordinated to the Ministry are working in an extraordinary way”.
The deputy governor of the historical region of Masovia, Sylwester D’browskialso confirmed the number of deaths and said in turn that there was a child among them: “The balance is not definitive and there are medical teams working in the place. At least two people have already received cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The injured are being transferred to the nearest hospitals.”
“One person in the most serious condition was transported to Warsawthe preliminary circumstances of the event indicate a problem with the landing due to difficult weather conditions, the TVN24 channel reported.
The Polish State Commission for the Investigation of Air Accidents opened an investigation into the incident, to establish whether the event occurred when the weather conditions were unfavorable.
With information from Telam.
Source: Clarin
