2023 Chrcynno Cessna Grand Caravan crash

On 17 July 2023, a privately owned Cessna 208 aircraft with three people on board crashed into a hangar at an airfield in Chrcynno, Poland.^[1] Six people – the plane's pilot and five people who were inside the hangar at that time – were killed and seven others were injured. The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in Poland since 2014, when eleven people died when a Piper PA-31P Navajo crashed near Topolów.^[2]

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2023 Chrcynno Cessna Grand Caravan crash
The crash site
Accident
Date	17 July 2023
Summary	Crashed during landing attempt
Site	Chrcynno, Poland
Total fatalities	6
Total injuries	9
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Cessna 208
Registration	SP-WAW
Flight origin	Chrcynno Airfield
Destination	Chrcynno Airfield
Passengers	2
Crew	1
Fatalities	1
Injuries	2
Survivors	2
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities	5
Ground injuries	7

The plane involved in the accident was a Cessna 208 B (SP-WAW) operated by a privately owned company, Skydive Warsaw.^[3] It was carrying three people, a flight instructor and two pilots in training, during a training flight.^[4] At 19:40 local time (17:40 GMT), the police received a report about a small passenger plane that had crashed into a hangar near the village of Chrcynno, approximately 28 miles northwest of Warsaw.^[4]

According to the Polish State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation, which is investigating the accident, the pilot lost control of the aircraft while climbing away after performing a touch-and-go maneuver, and struck a club house in which several people were sheltering due to a storm.^[5] As a result of the accident, the pilot of the plane and five people on the ground were killed, while the two trainee pilots that are passengers, survived. In addition, seven other people were injured.^[5]

2023 Chrcynno Cessna Grand Caravan crash

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