36th Special Aviation Regiment

36th Special Regiment of Aviation Transport
36 Specjalny Pułk Lotnictwa Transportowego ( PZL M28

The 36th Special Regiment of Aviation Transport (

accident report found serious deficiencies in its organization and training, and its aircraft retired.

Accidents

• On 28 February 1973 a government airliner Antonov An-24W serial number 97305702 (tail number 012), crashed in Szczecin, north-west Poland. All 18 people on board were killed (including ministers of the interior of Poland and Czechoslovakia).^[1]
• On 4 December 2003 Mi-8 helicopter carrying Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller crashed near Warsaw, all people on board survived.

• On 10 April 2010 one of two
  National Assembly of the Republic of Poland, and senior members of clergy of various denominations
  .

On 4 August 2011, the regiment was disbanded by the Polish Minister of National Defence as a direct consequence of the 2010 crash. The regiment officially ceased to exist on 31 December 2011; however, the 1st Air Transport Base continues to transport government VIPs by helicopter. Since then all Polish government officials have been using civil aircraft owned by

operated exclusively for government.

Equipment disbandment in 2011

Previously operated transport aircraft including Lisunov Li-2, Ilyushin Il-14, Antonov An-24 and Tupolev Tu-134.

Model	Origin	Picture	In Service
Tupolev Tu-154M Lux	Soviet Union		1
Yakovlev Yak-40	Soviet Union		4
PZL M28	Poland		3
PZL W-3 Sokół	Poland		5
Bell 412	United States		1
Mi-8	Soviet Union		7

References

• The Picture of the Polish Tu-154M Flight Crew as Expert-Flyers Emerges: The Crew Cleared of Any Wrongdoing, by Peter Czartoryski-Sziler for "Nasz Dziennik"