{"id":60630,"date":"2025-08-29T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60630"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:45:49","slug":"this-is-how-polish-aviator-maciej-krakowian-flew-he-died-in-radom-piloting-his-f-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/08\/29\/this-is-how-polish-aviator-maciej-krakowian-flew-he-died-in-radom-piloting-his-f-16\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how Polish aviator Maciej Krakowian flew: he died in Radom piloting his F-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Warsaw-Radomm Airport in Poland, in which a Polish Air Force pilot died.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/19\/some-excellent-images-of-f-16s-from-poland-portugal-and-romania-flying-over-lithuania\/\">Some excellent images of F-16s from Poland, Portugal, and Romania flying over Lithuania<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/03\/the-polish-air-force-has-already-completed-its-fleet-of-new-fa-50gf-golden-eagle-fighters\/\">The Polish Air Force has already completed its fleet of new FA-50GF Golden Eagle fighters<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The plane, an F-16C fighter jet, crashed on the runway at Radom<\/strong> during training for the airport's annual Air Festival, which was scheduled to take place this weekend. The festival has been canceled. Here's a video of the crash:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Additional footage of the Polish Air Force F-16 demonstrator crash this evening in Radom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VORLlCrHiR\">pic.twitter.com\/VORLlCrHiR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Osinttechnical\/status\/1961129856474751266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The pilot didn't have time to eject. <strong>The deceased officer is Major Maciej \"Slab\" Krakowian, who had more than 1,400 flight hours<\/strong>, including about 1,200 in the F-16. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wojsko-polskie.pl\/law\/articles\/aktualnosci-w\/polski-pilot-f16-wyrozniony-prestizowa-nagroda-na-riat-2025-szkola-orlat-gratuluje\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In July, Major Krakowian earned the \"As the Crow Flies\" award at The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT)<\/a>, one of the world's largest airshows, held annually at RAF Fairford, England. <strong>The award was given by the public for the great skill of the Polish aviator.<\/strong> Here we can see a video published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@planestv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlanesTV<\/a> showing one of the four exhibitions that Major Krakowian made at RIAT 2025:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polish F-16 with cockpit footage - RIAT 2025\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A5tJkzLSPY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Krakowian was 37 years old, married, and had twin sons born in 2021.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/polanddaily24.com\/farewell-to-an-f-16-pilot-his-wifes-heartbreaking-goodbye\/poland-today\/59640\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He had a habit of kissing his wife before all his flights<\/a>. The aviator was born on February 15, 1988, in P\u0142ock, in the Masovian Voivodeship, and <strong>had been serving in the Polish Air Force for 17 years<\/strong>. He enrolled in the Higher Aviation School in D\u0119blin in 2008, and after graduating, he enrolled at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. <strong>He was a highly experienced pilot.<\/strong> He had completed many specialized courses and training, and participated in numerous international exercises and missions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752642266_2a2361808d_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752642266_9334248777_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently, Major Krakowian was an instructor at the 31st Tactical Air Base in Pozna\u0144-Krzesiny<\/strong>, in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship. He was a capable pilot, capable of performing maneuvers that tested the limits of the F-16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54751792322_3390cf4f84_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54751792322_b712bbaa81_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since 2022 he was the pilot of the F-16 Tiger Demo Team Poland<\/strong>, a demonstration unit in which he flew an F-16C Bock 52-CF Fighting Falcon, the 4056 (03-0056, JC-17), decorated with grey tiger stripes and attached to the 6th Tactical Air Squadron of the Polish Air Force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54751792337_07ee3525a7_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54751792337_f9038cca77_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/asn.flightsafety.org\/wikibase\/541151\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flightsafety.org<\/a>, <em>\"<strong>the pilot proceeded to start a loop-de-loop at a low altitude<\/strong>, which resulted to exiting the maneuver too low, which proceeded the aircraft to crash at runway 07.\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752640896_2c5f893d40_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752640896_6b827ef77d_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Krakowian's death occurred on August 28th, Polish Aviation Day<\/strong>, which this year was marked by mourning. My condolences to the family and all of Major Krakowian's colleagues. May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752979980_be5d05ebd6_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752979980_a8f203baa8_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><big2>Cze\u015b\u0107 jego pami\u0119ci!<\/big2><br \/>\nHonor to his memory!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752855438_baa94b792c_o.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54752855438_1c895db5b4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: Wojsko Polskie.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrible accident occurred yesterday at Warsaw-Radomm Airport in Poland, in which a Polish Air Force pilot died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11546],"tags":[25156,9197,25154,1257,25158,10370,14051,9071,25157],"class_list":["post-60630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-military-aviation","tag-6th-tactical-air-squadron-of-the-polish-air-force","tag-air-show-radom","tag-f-16-tiger-demo-team-poland","tag-general-dynamics-f-16-fighting-falcon","tag-major-maciej-krakowian","tag-poland","tag-polish-air-force","tag-the-royal-international-air-tattoo","tag-warsaw-radom-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}