FLEEING AT LOW LEVEL

An-2 SP-ANK about to start its return flight to Zielona Góra, western Poland, having been used for the successful escape of nine Poles on 17 September 1983. USAF It wasn’t just airliners in which Poles escaped to Tempelhof. Several smaller aircraft were employed, too. The first was a PZL TS-8 Bies trainer of the Polish Air Force, way back on 10 July 1963. Its air force pilot fled at low level in the machine with his wife and their two