At least 5 individuals had been killed and eight others injured late Monday when a Cessna 208 aircraft crashed right into a hangar at a sky diving heart throughout unhealthy climate, authorities mentioned.
The aircraft’s pilot and 4 individuals sheltering within the hangar from stormy climate died within the afternoon crash in Chrcynno in central Poland, firefighters spokesperson Monika Nowakowska-Brynda mentioned.
An further eight individuals had been injured, two of them critically, police mentioned. A toddler was among the many injured, the provincial governor, Sylwester Dabrowski, mentioned.
Chrcynno is about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Warsaw.
Firefighters and airborne ambulances took the injured to hospitals within the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki space.
Rescuers had been nonetheless checking the hangar for extra victims, mentioned Katarzyna Urbanowska, one other spokesperson for native firefighters.
Prosecutors and police had been investigating the reason for the accident.
It was the worst accident associated to skydiving in Poland since 2014, when 11 individuals had been killed in a crash of a small aircraft in Topolow, close to the southern metropolis of Czestochowa.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
