MOSCOW - The plane of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski has crashed while on arrival at Smolensk in western Russia.
Lech Kaczynski was on board the aircraft and as officially announced in Warsaw by Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski, the President and 'dead in the accident. Would have to land at Smolensk and then to go to Katyn and honor the victims of the. Kaczynski's wife, Mary, Polish television reported, is among the victims.
The brother of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Jaroslaw, was not aboard the airplane. E 'as hinted Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in statements after the disaster issuer Polish private Radio Zet.
''E 'is my sad duty - said the foreign minister of Smolensk - to inform the premier of the disaster (Donald Tusk), chairman of the Sejm (parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski)''and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of President of the deceased. Prime Minister Tusk, Sikorski said,''cried''when he heard the news.
There were 96 people around on the flight, 88 of these were part of the official delegation that was supposed to attend a memorial service at Katyn. The Civil Protection said the Russian Itar-Tass. Gia 'in Previously the authorities' had reported that there were no survivors.
the wreckage were found about a mile from the runway of the military airport of Smolensk, Severn, reported the Russian media. The research is difficult because 'the area and' swamp.
According to preliminary information on the landing area was a dense fog. The plane hit the treetops before crashing to the ground.
On the plane crashed in Russia on board were also relatives of the officers of the Soviet Katyn massacre in 1940, whose death where being commemorated today in a ceremony in Smolensk. Polish television has meanwhile published a list of people who were aboard the plane that crashed and these include the President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Mary, several senior officials including the chief of staff Frantiszek Gagor and vice chairman of the PiS, the party of conservative twins Kaczynski (PiS), Przemyslaw Gosiewski. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an emergency meeting of the government in Warsaw.
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