A total of 87 people, including 10 crew, were killed when a Polish LOT Airlines Ilyushin Il-62 plane inbound from New York crashed near the Polish capital’s Okęcie airport on March 14, 1980 due to what was later reported as an engine failure.
Among the fatalities were American ethnomusicologist Alan Parkhurst Merriam and 22 members of a US amateur boxing team, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
The site of the March 14, 1980 plane crash near Warsaw's Okęcie airport. Photo: PAP/Ireneusz Radkiewicz
No one survived the crash. Jantar was 29.
Her daughter, Natalia Kukulska, is now 44 and an accomplished singer in her own right.
Singer Natalia Kukulska poses near a newly unveiled sidewalk tribute to her mother Anna Jantar during a music festival in the southern Polish city of Opole in 2012. Photo: TVP/PAP/Jan Bogacz
(gs)
Source: IAR