A small aircraft crashed right into a hangar at an airport close to Warsaw on Monday. (Representational)
Warsaw:
A small aircraft crashed right into a hangar at an airfield close to Warsaw on Monday, killing 5 folks, officers stated.
“We’ve a minimum of seven injured and 5 lifeless,” Well being Minister Adam Niedzielski wrote on Twitter.
Niedzielski stated 4 helicopters and 10 ambulances had been dispatched to the location of the accident within the village of Chrcynno, 47 kilometres (29 miles) from Warsaw.
The native hearth division stated the incident occurred on the airfield in Chrcynno and posted a photograph on Fb exhibiting the tail of the aircraft protruding of a hangar.
Contacted by AFP, native police spokeswoman Joanna Wielocha stated police had been referred to as at 1740 GMT to an accident.
Polish media stated the aircraft that crashed was a Cessna 208.
There have been folks within the hangar who had been sheltering from dangerous climate, PAP information company quoted hearth brigade spokeswoman Monika Nowakowska-Brynda as saying.
She stated the climate was a “possible trigger” for the crash.
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