Air crash on Obidowiec
Let L-200 Morava · Aircraft collision with terrain
From Kielce to air ambulance flight
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
- 1
- 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
- Charter & commuter
Let L-200 Morava
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The air crash on Obidowiec – an air crash on the ridge of Obidowiec (towards Turbacz), in the Gorce Mountains, which took place on 25 May 1973. A twin-engine Let L-200 Morava air ambulance aircraft crashed.
Course of the crash
The aircraft was making a flight from Gdańsk to Kielce, and then from Kielce to Nowy Targ, to which it was transporting a sick child, who was to be taken from the airfield in Nowy Targ to hospital in Rabka-Zdrój.
The flight took place in difficult atmospheric conditions, with heavy snowfall. The Podhale group of the Mountain Volunteer Rescue Service from Rabka-Zdrój took part in the rescue operation.
The mother of the transported child was killed in the crash. The pilot suffered a serious spinal injury. The child escaped major injuries.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Polish Wikipedia article “Katastrofa lotnicza na Obidowcu” (revision 77474147, 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
Polish Wikipedia article: Katastrofa lotnicza na Obidowcu
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 77474147 · 2025-08-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q28674899
- 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
- pl Wikipedia article "Katastrofa lotnicza na Obidowcu" (page 3885969, revision 77474147), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An air ambulance aircraft transporting a sick child to hospital: an air ambulance flight, charter. The article: "A twin-engine Let L-200 Morava air ambulance aircraft crashed."
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Polish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.