Today
After the crash, the place where Flight 5055 came down and exploded was — during three months of cleanup — ploughed and sown with new trees. As of 2009, the long mark in the forest is still perfectly visible from the sky. On the north edge of that mark is a monument - a high, black Christian cross and a black stone engraved with the names of crash victims. In Ursynów district there is a Zygmunt Pawlaczyk street, and through Kabaty Forest runs a Grove of "Kościuszko" Plane Crew.
Symbolic graves of the crew members lie in Powązki Military Cemetery, and a collective grave of unidentified victims lies in Wólka Węglowa Cemetery - the place where the victims were identified. Some identified victims were also buried there; others were buried in their hometowns.
The transatlantic route from Warsaw to destinations in the USA has not changed since 1987.
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