LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 Crashes into Polica Mountain, Killing 53, April 2, 1969
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashes into the Polica mountain near Zawoja, Poland, killing 53.
Date: April 2, 1969
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