plane crash near Smolensk, Polish president on board

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Storm87

Now we know the exact number of casualities - 96 (88 passengers and 8 crew members.) No one survived. Tu-154M crashed during 4th attempt to land. It hit the trees in heavy fog, few hundred meters away from the airfield. So a mistake of the pilot and bad weather conditions are most probably cause.

In crash died our president, Lech Kaczyñski, first lady Maria, along with 12 members of parlament, 2 senators, 3 deputy ministers, and many others parlament and government highly officials.

Also 3 persons from presidential staff, 9 priests (most of them were chaplains), 6 army generals, 15 WWII combatants and 8 secret service guards.


Here in Poland, we all (no matter of our political preferences) regreat that loss. Irreplaceable, extraordinary persons died there.


(sorry for bad english)

Well said. My condolences to your country's loss. This must really be a black day for you. Your friends here share your sorrow, mate.

Neal