At 8.56am in Smolensk, Russia, crashed plane carrying Polish President, his wife and several senior government figures. There were no survivors. They were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when Soviets killed thousands of Poles.
On board were:
Lech Kaczyński
Maria Kaczyńska
Ryszard Kaczorowski
Jerzy Szmajdziński
Władysław Stasiak
Aleksander Szczygło
Paweł Wypych
Mariusz Handzlik
Andrzej Kremer
Franciszek Gągor
Andrzej Przewoźnik
Grzeogrz Dolniak
Przemysław Gosiewski
Zbigniew Wassermann
Janusz Kochanowski
Sławomir Skrzypek
Janusz Kurtyka
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