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Safety history

• January 23, 2008AccidentHull loss

  The aircraft departed Warsaw at 1651LT on a flight to Krakow with intermediate stops in Powidz, Poznań-Krzesiny, Mirosławiec and Świdwin, carrying 36 passengers and a crew of four. They were returning to their base after intending the 50th Annual Aviation Safety Conference held in Warsaw.

  CASA C-295 · 20 fatalities

  Inadvertent loss of spatial and situational awareness by the aircraft crew during final stages of PAR approach, which, within 12 seconds period before crash, resulted in the aircraft’s bank increasing unmonitored and accompanying altitude loss, while the flight crew apparently was trying to establish visual contact with runway and approach lights. Full accident record