It also bears resemblance to the more recent MH17 crash in Ukraine in manner and circumstance...and evidence.
“MH17 missile ‘came from Russia’, Dutch-led investigators say”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37495067
The resemblance is scant, though. The Smolensk appears to be another mass-assassination of the Polish elite, the first being Katyn.
MH17 was shot down, most likely, by mistake, because the crew mistook the airliner for a Ukrainian military plane. Or — another theory — in order to blame the Ukrainians. In either case, the passengers that were murdered in MH17 were random victims from countries neutral to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
How about Iran air flight 655?
Shot down by American missile.
resemblance.