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April 10, 2010: POLISH PRESIDENT DIES IN PLANE CRASH (AND 88 OTHERS)- CONFIRMED
Al Jazeera ^ | April 10, 2010

Posted on 04/10/2010 1:19:25 AM PDT by lizol

Polish president dies in air crash

A plane carrying Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president, has crashed near Smolensk airport in western Russia, killing all on board, Russian officials have reported.

Polish officials confirmed on Saturday that Kaczynski was on board the flight with his wife, as well as Slawomir Skrzypek, the president of Poland's central bank, Andrzej Kremer, the deputy foreign minister and the army chief of staff.

The crash occurred about 1.5km from Smolensk airport in foggy conditions.


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KEYWORDS: kaczynski; ntsb; obama; palin; poland; russia; spartansixdelta; tupolev154
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To: All; machogirl

Repost from another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2490296/posts?page=77#77

http://twitter.com/RT_com

russia today twitter about accident

77 posted on April 10, 2010 2:14:23 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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61 posted on 04/10/2010 2:25:18 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: lizol
Related article:

Polish president feared among 130 dead in plane crash

RIP His Excellency Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland, June 18, 1949 - April 10, 2010.

62 posted on 04/10/2010 2:26:49 AM PDT by myknowledge (B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
First on-site video of plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski
63 posted on 04/10/2010 2:29:25 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: dragnet2
It was a presidential plane, a Tupolev Tu-154.

This was the only aircraft Poland had with the 36th Special Aviation Regiment.

64 posted on 04/10/2010 2:30:08 AM PDT by myknowledge (B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)
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To: lizol

OMG! Unbelievable tragedy. Prayers for wonderful Poland.


65 posted on 04/10/2010 2:31:03 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (Reconciliation will happen in November!)
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6390NQ20100410

“Polish president killed in Russian plane crash”
Lidia Kelly
SMOLENSK, Russia
Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:21am EDT
Related Video

Polish president in plane crash
5:04am EDT

(Reuters) -

SNIPPET: “Television pictures showed the burning fuselage and fragments of the plane scattered in a forest. The crash occurred about 2 km (1.3 miles) from Smolensk airport.

“The plane caught fire after the crash. Teams began attempting to pull out passengers from the badly damaged airplane,” said a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman in Warsaw.””


66 posted on 04/10/2010 2:32:06 AM PDT by Cindy
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The President, and the First Lady




67 posted on 04/10/2010 2:33:48 AM PDT by lizol
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

So is Gazprom when you consider Poland was asking the EU to look at shale gas development. And likewise Poland was developing shale in country to get off of Gazprom’s gas.

Putin’s timing on making the invitation to the Polish president was dead on.


68 posted on 04/10/2010 2:33:51 AM PDT by theanchoragedailyruse
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To: lizol

What a tremendous loss for Poland.


69 posted on 04/10/2010 2:35:11 AM PDT by iowamark
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And we should also keep in mind, that mother of the President - Mrs Jadwiga Kaczynska - is in hospital, being seriuosly ill for several weeks.

The President spent a lot of time with her recently.

And now she’ll find out something like this ...


71 posted on 04/10/2010 2:37:18 AM PDT by lizol
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To: Squantos

Also see post no. 66.

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Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tg3Bqe2vH4


72 posted on 04/10/2010 2:37:40 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: BigSkyFreeper

According to RT via CNN International, the pilots were told by Smolensk ATC to land in Minsk, but the pilots decided against it.


73 posted on 04/10/2010 2:38:30 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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Exactly 70 years later and almost in the same place they joined the lines of Polish officers killed in Katyn ....


74 posted on 04/10/2010 2:41:29 AM PDT by lizol
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To: dragnet2

Apparently it was a Polish owned TU-154 Tupelov and was the Presidential aircraft. Those old TU’s are deathtraps, I was shocked when I learned that Poland was still using one. The EU is handing out money for all kinds of nonsense projects and they let top political leaders use those old crates. Nobody should ever step foot into one of them, they should all be grounded and trashed.


75 posted on 04/10/2010 2:41:57 AM PDT by reagan4palin
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To: pyx; BlackVeil

I think it’s natural to think of subterfuge when a nation’s leader is on board a crash like this, but it seems like poor judgment concerning the weather conditions to me.

We’ll see how it turns out. I could obviously be wrong.


76 posted on 04/10/2010 2:42:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the all knowing/seeing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr. blessings be upon him.)
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Off Topic:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/russia-485/


77 posted on 04/10/2010 2:42:22 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: BigSkyFreeper
According to the flight manifest onboard were among others:



78 posted on 04/10/2010 2:42:40 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: DoughtyOne

So many important people on that plane, all gone. Something doesn’t feel right here.....


79 posted on 04/10/2010 2:43:10 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (In this election year, we'll see many daring Davids take on entrenched Goliaths.)
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To: lizol; politicallyincarrect; /\XABN584; 3D-JOY; 5Madman; <1/1,000,000th%; 11B3; 1Peter2:16; ...

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Please join this FACEBOOK GROUP to Demand that President Obama offer our NTSB assistance to the PEOPLE of Poland NOW !


80 posted on 04/10/2010 2:43:16 AM PDT by davidosborne (DavidOsborneDotZurvitaDotBiz)
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