2023 Chrcynno Cessna 208 crash
Cessna 208 · Crashed during landing attempt
From Chrcynno Airfield to Chrcynno Airfield
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA23WA208
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 5
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 9 · 7 on the ground
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 208
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- SP-WAW
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Chrcynno AirfieldTo Chrcynno Airfield
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 129: Foreign
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: Chrcynno, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 17 July 2023, a privately owned Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft with three people on board crashed into a hangar at an airfield in Chrcynno, Poland. 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-31 Navajo crashed near Topolów.
Accident
The plane involved in the accident was a Cessna 208 B (SP-WAW) operated by a privately owned company, Skydive Warsaw. It was carrying three people, a flight instructor and two pilots in training, during a training flight. 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.
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. 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.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The aircraft was not equipped with a flight recorder (FDR) or a cockpit recorder (CVR). Neither was required under applicable aviation regulations.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 2023 Chrcynno Cessna 208 crash
- Revision
- 1355170968 · 2026-05-20 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q121307952
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA23WA208
- Event ID
- 20230718192649
- Case number
- GAA23WA208
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2023 Chrcynno Cessna 208 crash" (page 74440806, revision 1355170968); merged with NTSB case GAA23WA208 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA23WA208
- Operation
- "privately owned" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: ground fatalities
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2023 Chrcynno Cessna 208 crash" and NTSB case GAA23WA208, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.