LOT Polish Airlines Flight 702
Antonov An-24V · Hijacking
From Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO) to Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)
Event
- 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
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 43
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Airline
Antonov An-24V
- Aircraft type
- Antonov AN-24
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-LTI
- Operator
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO)To Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The hijacking of LOT Polish Airlines Flight 702 was the hijacking of a scheduled An-24 passenger plane operated by LOT Polish Airlines on 22 August 1981. The hijacker was Jerzy Dygas, the mailman for Tygodnik Solidarność, along with two others, overpowered the crew of a scheduled passenger plane from Wrocław to Warsaw with a grenade and ordered the plane to divert to West Berlin. There were four crew members and 39 passengers on board. The plane landed at Tempelhof Airport at 7:09 p.m., after which the hijacker released the passengers, surrendered to the Americans and requested asylum..
The US authorities handed him over to West Berlin police, who put him on trial for terrorism. Unlike many who escaped the Iron Curtain, Dygas received a sentence higher than the minimum stipulated in the German criminal code and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.. This was the third hijacking targeting aircraft SP-LTI, following two previous incidents on July 21 and August 5, 1981.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 702
- Revision
- 1370996586 · 2026-08-24 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q18146037
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "LOT Polish Airlines Flight 702" (page 83163361, revision 1370996586)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.