Prime Minister, 8 Others Hurt in Copter Landing
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and at least eight associates were injured when a helicopter carrying 15 people made an emergency landing in a field south of Warsaw. Technical problems were blamed.
“The prime minister is in a good and stable condition and doesn’t require surgery,” said Dr. Grazyna Rydzewska at a Warsaw hospital.
Later reports indicated that Miller’s thoracic vertebrae were fractured.
He was returning from a visit to a copper mine in southwestern Poland.
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