Five killed as small plane crashes into hangar during bad weather in Poland

Firefighters and air ambulances took injured victims to local hospitals in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki area.

The tail of a Cessna 208 plane sticks out of a hangar after it crashed there in bad weather in Chrcynno, central Poland. Picture: Czarek Sokolowski/AP

Five people were killed and another five were injured when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a skydiving centre in bad weather in central Poland, rescuers have said.

The plane’s pilot and four people sheltering in the hangar from stormy weather were killed in the afternoon crash in Chrcynno, firefighters’ spokesperson Monika Nowakowska-Brynda said.