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87 Dead After Polish President Lech Kaczynski's Plane Crashes in Russia
Fox News ^ | April 10, 2010

Posted on 04/10/2010 12:56:45 AM PDT by Zakeet

Breaking News.

Headline is all that's in so far.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: accident; airline; kaczynski; lechkaczynski; planecrash; poland; russia
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To: Zakeet
Presidential plane crashes in Smolensk

The TU-154 aircraft, carrying Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska as well as Polish dignitaries, was about to land in Smolensk, Russia, when it hit crash landed and burst in flames.

President Kaczyński was travelling to Katyń on official duty.

According to press information, other passengers on the plane were NBP president Sławomir Skrzypek and IPN head Janusz Kurtyka.

UPDATE 1: As many as 87 people aboard the plane are dead.

UPDATE 2: The Governer of the Smolensk region has said that all the passengers aboard the plane are dead.

41 posted on 04/10/2010 1:22:48 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: ConservativeMan55

Fox ‘breaking news’ apparently refers only to breaking news during business hours. I turned to FNS at 4a, hoping for an update on the WV miners, but it was a rerun of the Baier show with C. Wallace. Nothing about the miners.

Their first coverage of this crash will probably be around 7am. (ok, so a slight exaggeration) Frankly, the possibilities about this crash scare me to death.


42 posted on 04/10/2010 1:24:17 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Doofer

Polish television TVP is showing video from crash site now.


43 posted on 04/10/2010 1:24:48 AM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats must go)
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To: Zakeet

There was a lot of noise around this visit and friction between Poland and Russia over Katyn where the Russians murdered the entire Polish officer corps.

At the Katyn Massacre, the Russians massacred more than 22,000 Polish officers in cold blood. For years they tried to blame it on the Germans, but everyone knew.

Putin still refuses to apologize for it.


44 posted on 04/10/2010 1:25:25 AM PDT by Bon mots
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45 posted on 04/10/2010 1:26:30 AM PDT by lizol
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Fox news dropped it.

Sky News only has a banner telling us less than this thread does.


46 posted on 04/10/2010 1:27:35 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Bon mots

Watch Putin start smiling like the Cheshire Cat.


47 posted on 04/10/2010 1:27:49 AM PDT by mkjessup (0bama is doing to America what Roman Polanski did to his victim, but without lube.)
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To: Viiksitimali

132 passengers? did i read that right?


48 posted on 04/10/2010 1:28:15 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: Zakeet

A tragic loss. I trust no one and suspect everyone including Russia. They are foaming at the mouth since they have the Kenyan appeaser kissing their as*es and weakening the US.


49 posted on 04/10/2010 1:28:23 AM PDT by mojitojoe (“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
The TU-154 - this is apparently the type of plane involved in the crash ...

Prayers for the families and loved ones of all who were lost.

50 posted on 04/10/2010 1:28:53 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Zakeet
What a loss.....Prayers.polish flag
51 posted on 04/10/2010 1:29:00 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: Zakeet

RIP


52 posted on 04/10/2010 1:29:51 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: eartotheground

Yeah, the TU-154 was probably not the greatest idea anyone’s ever had. Poland should have bought something else other than an old Eastern Bloc airliner for a Presidential craft.


53 posted on 04/10/2010 1:30:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Nextrush

Here’s what TVP has;

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.tvp.pl/&ei=njbAS9T0FsL48Ab62v3zCA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTVP%2BPoland%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Dn

( Sorry if link doesn’t work )

They say the cause may be dense fog.


54 posted on 04/10/2010 1:31:12 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Viiksitimali

Thanks!


55 posted on 04/10/2010 1:36:15 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Zakeet
Via TVP (Poland) [Google Translate - edit for clarity]

Government Tupolev Tu-154, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and the guests who rode to the ceremony in Katyn, crashed due to dense fog. Jak podaje MSZ, najprawdopodobniej nikt nie przeżył katastrofy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most likely no one survived the crash. Na pokładzie było ok. 90 osób. On board were about 90 people.

When landing a plane with Polish President did not reach the ground, it got caught on the tops of trees, fell to the ground and disintegrated into pieces - said the governor of Smolensk.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski said the presidential plane crashed 1.5 kilometers from the military airport in Smolensk.

[T]he list of passengers Presidential plane TU-154 should be: Lech Kaczynski, Maria Kaczynska, the last president in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Wladyslaw Stasiak, Aleksander Szczyglo, Pawel Wypych, Mariusz Handzlik, Andrzej Kremer, Chief of General Staff Gen. Franciszek Gągor HR, Andrew Carrier, Grzeogrz Dolniak, Przemyslaw Gosiewski, Zbigniew Wassermann, Janusz Kochanowski, Slawomir Skrzypek, Janusz Kurtyka, Bishop Tadeusz Płoski.

Tu-154 had problems with the landing. Pilots pick up a plane in the air. The plane got caught in a tree, fell to the ground and caught fire. Fire has been extinguished.

According Paszkowski, the plane was checked before take-off and there were no technical problems.

On-site rescue teams are working.

Families of victims of the Katyn massacre, gathered at the War Cemetery in Katyn, pray for the presidential airplane passengers that crashed at the airport in Smolensk. 

When the meeting was informed of the situation through loudspeakers, in the cemetery there was silence, then participants in the ceremony began to pray.



56 posted on 04/10/2010 1:36:45 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: mkjessup

Considering that Kacysnski was headed for a memorial service at Katyn Wood, this is all the more smelly.


57 posted on 04/10/2010 1:37:27 AM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats must go)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Google Translate [Polish-English]
58 posted on 04/10/2010 1:39:45 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: Nextrush

I should amend that more clearly to say after he left the service and the plane took off it crashed.

Polish TVP is in Smolensk because of the memorial service today.


59 posted on 04/10/2010 1:40:32 AM PDT by Nextrush (Slocialist Republicans and Socialist Democrats must go)
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