The exact number of victims is unknown; it is believed that three crew members and six civilians (pedestrians and workers at the crash site) were killed, while several others sustained injuries.

[1] However, when he noticed children playing football there, he decided to continue, probably aiming to land on an undeveloped area near the Church of the Body of Christ on Krakowska Street.

[2] The aircraft struck the roof of the Workers' Cooperative building at the intersection and crashed into the embankment of the Queen Jadwiga Bridge [pl] being constructed at the time.

[3] According to the Pamięci lotników wojskowych 1945–2003 publication from 2003, the plane crashed on the southern side of the intersection, where the Poznań University of Physical Education [pl] building now stands.

[5] In contrast, witness accounts cited in Krzysztof M. Kaźmierczak's Ściśle tajne indicate that the accident took place on the northern side of the intersection, near the Church of the Body of Christ, at the junction of Strzelecka and Krakowska streets (where an apartment block now stands).

According to a confidential bulletin from the Poznań City Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, released three days after the accident, two military personnel and five civilians were killed, and 15 people were injured.

[10] Journalist Krzysztof M. Kaźmierczak, who investigated the disaster, argued that the actual cause was not pilot error but rather the poor technical condition of the Soviet bomber.

He argues that, at the time of the disaster, Pe-2FT aircraft were overused and overloaded, partly due to the addition of extra armor on the underside of the fuselage, which led to engine failures.

[9] The secrecy resulted in the event being largely erased from the collective memory of Poznań's residents, despite its occurrence in the city center and its tragic toll of nine fatalities and multiple injuries.

[9] Following the article's publication, the Institute of National Remembrance launched an investigation in October 2007 into the falsification of documents related to the crash by security officials to obscure its true causes and circumstances.

Designed by Roman Kosmala [pl], the monument takes the form of a boulder featuring a fragment of the bomber's fuselage, discovered in 1952 by a witness and preserved until its installation.