Aircraft
The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il-62M built in the 3Q of 1983, bearing the name Tadeusz Kościuszko, after the Polish military leader of the same name. Notably, two different Polish Il-62s bore this name: one was Il-62 SP-LAB (cn 21105), the second plane of this type purchased by LOT in 1972; the other, which crashed, was an Il-62M purchased in 1984.
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