As the stricken plane descended towards Warsaw airport without its landing gear deployed, the pilot simply told the control tower: "We're going for the landing.

It said that the plane had crashed near the Warsaw airport shortly after takeoff and that there had been 172 passengers and 11 crew members on board.

Finished in 1933, the new modernist premises of the Warsaw airport cost the State Treasury around 10 million Zloty.

In the immediate postwar years the airport was a key transport hub, but that role diminished by the 1950s with the development of Warsaw airport.

He was arrested in Warsaw airport, but was later set free when authorities discovered that he had been framed.

Unregulated taxi drivers operate at Warsaw airport and elsewhere.

The talk, lasting 55 minutes, took place at the Warsaw airport just before the Pope ended his weeklong visit to Poland.

Even at the Warsaw airport she felt her heart pounding until they changed crews and lifted off for Frankfurt.

Warsaw airport is due to remain closed till 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, with all incoming flights diverted to other airports in Poland.

But when they got to the Warsaw airport they discovered that workers at Lot, the Polish airline, had gone on strike.