The World - News from Nov. 3, 1988
A Soviet-built plane of the Polish airline LOT made a belly landing in a field in southeast Poland and caught fire, killing a woman passenger and injuring five, the official news agency PAP said. It said the engines of the twin-turboprop Antonov 24 failed near the city of Rzeszow, and the pilot made a skillful emergency landing. PAP said earlier that 16 people had died. LOT officials and doctors in Rzeszow said the mistake probably arose because many survivors simply walked away from the burning plane to a nearby road and hitched rides into town.
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