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1962 Polish Air Force Ilyushin Il-14 accident near Warsaw

3 Mar 1962 · near Warsaw, Poland

Air Force of the Polish People's Republic Ilyushin Il-14P (T) · Mid-air collision with a parachutist

From Warsaw Airport to Warsaw Airport

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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
Accident
Event fatalities
1 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
Unknown
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
Military

Ilyushin Il-14P (T)

Aircraft type
Ilyushin IL-14
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
026
Onboard fatalities
1
Route
From Warsaw AirportTo Warsaw Airport

Approximate · Estimated position: Warsaw, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The 1962 Polish Air Force Ilyushin Il-14 accident near Warsaw occurred on 3 March 1962, when an Ilyushin Il-14P of the Air Force of the Polish People's Republic collided in mid-air with a parachutist. Several people on board the aircraft were injured; the parachutist was killed by the collision.

Sequence of the accident

The Ilyushin was one of six aircraft that had set off that day, carrying paratroopers, for parachute jumping exercises. In flight, the aircraft collided with a paratrooper of the 6. Pomorska Dywizja Powietrzna (6th Pomeranian Air Division), who had previously jumped from another Il-14. The paratrooper, who had struck the area of the cockpit, was killed instantly, and the captain of the aircraft was seriously injured. The first officer of the Il-14 took over the controls of the badly damaged aircraft. He managed to make an emergency landing with the landing gear retracted, in which the Ilyushin was damaged beyond repair and several occupants were injured.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Iljuschin Il-14 der Polnischen Luftstreitkräfte bei Warschau 1962” (revision 240997118, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Iljuschin Il-14 der Polnischen Luftstreitkräfte bei Warschau 1962
Article
Flugunfall einer Iljuschin Il-14 der Polnischen Luftstreitkräfte bei Warschau 1962
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
240997118 · 2024-01-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q109887904
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
de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Iljuschin Il-14 der Polnischen Luftstreitkräfte bei Warschau 1962" (page 12014767, revision 240997118), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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)
Operation
operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.