LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 14, 1980

• LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 disaster
• U.S. Amateur Boxing team airplane crash

The front page has banner headline: "22 U.S. Athletes Killed; Boxing Team Among 87 Victims in Polish Jet Crash" with subheads and 4 related photos. (see images) 
Complete 1st section only with all 28 pages, nice condition.

Background: The LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 disaster on March 14, 1980, stands out as a uniquely catastrophic aviation tragedy due to a extraordinary sequence of mechanical failures and the tragic loss of high-profile international figures. Returning to Warsaw from New York, the Ilyushin Il-62 suffered an indicator light malfunction on approach, prompting a routine go-around; however, when full thrust was applied, a latent manufacturing defect caused a turbine disc in the left-inner engine to explosively disintegrate, firing high-velocity shrapnel that simultaneously destroyed adjacent engines, severed the primary mechanical rudder and elevator control cables, and cut all power—leaving the pilots entirely without elevator control. In an extraordinary act of heroism, Captain Paweł Lipowczan manipulated the remaining wing ailerons during the unrecoverable dive to steer the aircraft away from a residential area and a juvenile detention facility before crashing into a 19th-century military fort's moat, killing all 87 people on board. The tragedy was further marked by its remarkable and diverse group of passengers, including 22 members of the U.S. Amateur Boxing Delegation (among them Pan American Games champion Lemuel Steeples), legendary Polish pop singer Anna Jantar, and renowned ethnomusicologist Alan P. Merriam, making it one of the most culturally devastating air disasters in Poland's history.