Plane Hits Hangar Where People Were Sheltering in Storm in Poland; Pilot and 4 Others Killed and 8 Injured

The tail of a Cessna 208 plane sticks out of a hangar after it crashed there in bad weather, killing several people and injuring others, at a sky-diving center in Chrcynno, central Poland, on July 17, 2023. Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo

WARSAW, Poland—Five people were killed and eight others were injured Monday when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a sky diving center during bad weather, authorities said.

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