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    No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

    [Source: Yahoo, Reuters, View Original Article.]

    Reuters - There were no survivors in the crash of a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Russia, Polish state news agency PAP reported, quoting local officials in Smolensk.
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    Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

    Polish president's plane crashes in Russia; 87 die (AP)

    [Source: Yahoo, AP, View Original Article.]

    AP - Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed.
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      Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

      Polish president 'in plane crash'

      [Source: BBC, View Original Article.]

      Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski has crashed in Russia, reportedly killing 87 people.
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        Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

        Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash in SW Russia ('RIA Novosti' newswire, edited)

        [Source: RIA/Novosti, <cite cite="http://en.rian.ru/world/20100410/158507225.html">Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash in SW Russia | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire</cite>.]

        Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash in SW Russia

        12:2410/04/2010


        An passenger plane en route from Warsaw to Smolensk on Saturday crashed during landing in heavy fog in southwest Russia, killing all passengers on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski.

        According to a Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, there were 132 people on board the aircraft.

        "On Saturday in the Pechorsk district of the Smolensk region, the Polish president's Tu-154 crashed during landing in heavy fog at Severny Airport. There were 132 people on board, including the president and his wife," Markin said.

        He said the exact number of those killed on board the plane is being determined.

        Earlier it was reported that 87 people were on board.

        MOSCOW, April 10 (RIA Novosti)
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          Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

          Polish President Plane Crash: 87 Dead, President Lech Kaczynski On Flight

          [Source: The Huffington Post, View Original Article.]

          MOSCOW (AP)-- Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed. The Polish Foreign Ministry confirmed that the president and his wife were aboard the plane that crashed Saturday near the city of Smolensk. A spokeswoman for Russia's Emergencies Ministry, Irina Andrianova, said 87 people were killed but she had no details on their identity.
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            Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

            Polish president dies in air crash (Second Lead)

            [Source: Thaindian, View Original Article.]

            By Surender Bhutani
            Warsaw, April 10 (IANS) Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were killed with some 130 people when their plane crashed Saturday while preparing to land in Russia in foggy weather, officials said. The accident took place when the Russian-built Tuplilov 154-M reportedly struck some trees and caught fire as it approached the [...]
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              Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

              Breaking news: Plane Polish president crashes

              [Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide, View Original Article.]

              A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski has crashed on approach to Smolensk airport in western Russia, killing scores of people. President Kaczynski is feared dead. Russian news agencies report 87 people died in the crash. The governor of Smolensk says there are no survivors. It's thought the Tupolev Tu-154 had 132 people on board. The head of the Polish army and the head of the presidential administration were also on board the plane, along with the president's wife and the families of other senior officials.
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                Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

                Poland, Country Profile (WolframAlpha, edited)

                [Source: WolframAlpha, (LINK). Edited.]


                • Name:
                  • full name Republic of Poland
                  • full native name Rzeczpospolita Polska
                  • internet code .pl

                • Geographic properties:
                  • area 312 685 km2 (square kilometers)
                  • world rank: 69th

                • Bordering countries�-regions:
                  • Belarus
                  • Czech Republic
                  • Germany
                  • Lithuania
                  • Russia
                  • Slovakia
                  • Ukraine

                • Demographics:
                  • population 38.1 million people
                  • world rank: 34th
                  • population density 125 people�km2 (people per square kilometer)
                  • world rank: 87th
                  • population growth -0.0773%per year
                  • world rank: 218th
                  • life expectancy 75.6 years
                  • world rank: 78th
                  • median age 37.9 years
                  • world rank: 47th

                • Cultural properties:
                  • languages
                    • Polish 96%
                    • German 1.3%
                    • Belarusan 0.58%
                    • Ukrainian 0.39%
                    • Polish Sign Language 0.13%
                  • ethnic mix
                    • Polish 96.7%
                    • other 2.7%
                    • German 0.4%
                    • Belarusian 0.1%
                    • Ukrainian 0.1%
                  • religions
                    • Christianity 95.97%
                  • literacy fraction 99.8%

                • Capital city:
                  • Warsaw, Mazowieckie

                • Largest cities:
                  • city population:
                    • Warsaw, Mazowieckie 1 704 717
                    • Lodz 756 666
                    • Kracow, Malopolskie
                    • Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie 633 950
                    • Poznan, Wielkopolskie 564 035

                • Currency:
                  • currency name 1Polish zloty
                  • currency code PLN
                  • local currency conversion 1 Polish zloty = ? 0.26 euros
                  • currency conversion 1 Polish zloty = $ 0.35 US dollars

                • Economic properties:
                  • GDP $527.9 billion per year - world rank: 19th
                  • GDP at parity $670.7 billion per year 2008L - world rank: 21st
                  • real GDP $527.9 billion per year price-adjusted to year- 2008 US dollars - world rank: 18th
                  • GDP per capita $13 900 per person 2008 - world rank: 78th
                  • GDP real growth 4.941% per year - world rank: 91st
                  • Gini index 0.35 - world rank: 47th
                  • inflation rate 3.112% per year - world rank: 171st
                  • unemployment rate 9.8% 2008 - world rank: 85th


                Generated by Wolfram|Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com) on April 10, 2010 from Champaign, IL.
                ? Wolfram Alpha LLC?A Wolfram Research Company
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                  Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

                  Poland in shock as president feared dead in crash

                  The Polish president Lech Kaczynski was feared dead after his plane crashed as it approached a Russian airport, killing 130 people.



                  Published: 10:22AM BST 10 Apr 2010

                  Lech Kaczynski has been president of Poland since December 2005 Photo: AP


                  President Lech Kaczynski was travelling with his wife from Warsaw to Smolensk airport, 220 miles southwest of Moscow, when his plane crashed in thick fog.
                  Poland was left stunned by the news that their president, his wife, and a whole swath of the Polish elite had been killed.
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                  A television newsreader fought back tears as she relayed the news that the head of the Polish army and the head of the presidential administration were also on board the plane, along with the president's wife and families of other senior officials.
                  The plane was also carrying the governor of Poland's central bank, Slawomir Skrzypek.
                  Sergei Antufiev, the regional governor of the Smolensk, said that everyone on board had been killed.
                  "It clipped the tops of the trees, crashed down and broke into pieces," Mr Antufiev, told Russia-24 television news network by telephone. "There were no survivors." Polish state news agency PAP also said there were no survivors.
                  William Hague, shadow foreign minister, wrote on Twitter: "Very sad this morning about the death of Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash - a brave man who was interned by the Communists for his beliefs."
                  Mr Kaczynski, 60, had been president since December 2005. He was married with one daughter.
                  Mr Kaczynski had been flying to Katyn, near Smolensk, to commemorate Russian and Polish victims of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
                  Thousands of Polish prisoners of war and intellectuals were murdered at Katyn by Soviet forces in spring 1940 in an enduring symbol for Poles of their suffering under Soviet rule.
                  Families of those killed at Katyn were also on board the plane, the Polish government official at the airport said.
                  In the case of a president's death, the speaker of the lower chamber of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, takes over as head of state, Mr Komorowski's assistant Jerzy Smolinski told Reuters.
                  Conditions around the airport were described as foggy when the Tupolev Tu-154 came down a mile from the airport. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-in-crash.html
                  CSI:WORLD http://swineflumagazine.blogspot.com/

                  treyfish2004@yahoo.com

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                    Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

                    President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russia</NYT_HEADLINE>
                    Reuters
                    A still image from video footage shows a firefighter working to extinguish the flames from the wreckage of a flight carrying the Polish president on Saturday.

                    <NYT_BYLINE>By ELLEN BARRY and NICHOLAS KULISH

                    </NYT_BYLINE>Published: April 10, 2010

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                    <NYT_TEXT><NYT_CORRECTION_TOP></NYT_CORRECTION_TOP>MOSCOW ? A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other high-ranking officials crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning, killing all aboard, Polish officials said.

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                    Michal Cizek/Agence France-Presse ? Getty Images

                    Lech Kaczynski.


                    Russian television showed chunks of still-flaming fuselage scattered in a bare forest near Smolensk, where the president was arriving for a ceremony commemorating the murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers by the Red Army as it invaded Poland.
                    The governor of Smolensk region, Sergei Antufiyev, said early reports suggest the plane, landing in a thick fog, did not reach the runway but instead hit the treetops and fell apart. Russian president Dmitri A. Medvedev ordered top officials to rush to the scene and opened an investigation into the causes of the crash.
                    The crash came as a stunning blow to Poland, killing many of the country?s top leaders and reviving, for some, the horror of the Katyn massacre.
                    ?It is a damned place,? former president Aleksander Kwas?niewski told TVN24. ?It sends shivers down my spine. First the flower of the Second Polish Republic is murdered in the forests around Smolensk, now the intellectual elite of the Third Polish Republic die in this tragic plane crash when approaching Smolensk airport.?
                    ?This is a wound which will be very difficult to heal,? he said.
                    Former president Lech Walesa, who presided over Poland?s transition from communism, cast the crash in similar historic terms.?This is the second disaster after Katyn,? he told the news channel TVN-24. ?They wanted to cut off our head there, and here the flower of our nation has also perished. Regardless of the differences, the intellectual class of those on the plane was truly great.?
                    The plane was a Tupolev Tu-154, designed by the Soviets in the mid-1960s, and officials had long complained about the country?s aging air fleet. Former prime minister Leszek Miller, who survived a helicopter crash in 2003, told a Polish news network he had long predicted such a disaster.
                    ?I once said that we will one day meet in a funeral procession, and that is when we will take the decision to replace the aircraft fleet,? he said.
                    Among those on board the plane were Mr. Kaczynski; his wife, Maria; former Polish president Ryszard Kaczorowski; the deputy speaker of Poland?s parliament, Jerzy Szmajdzin?ski; the head of the president?s chancellery, Wladyslaw Stasiak; and the head of the National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczygo.
                    Mr. Kaczynski?s death on Russian soil is another tragic event in the tumultuous relationship between Russia and Poland.
                    He had been due in western Russia to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.
                    The ceremonies were to be held at a site in the Katyn forest close to Smolensk, where 70 years ago members of the Soviet secret police executed more than 20,000 Polish officers captured after the Soviet Army invaded Poland in 1939.
                    The two countries had been making strides in recent months to improve their ties, which had long been strained. Poland was once a Soviet satellite, and has resented dominance by Moscow. After the collapse of Communism, it had embraced the West and snubbed Russia.
                    The Katyn massacre was one point of tension. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin took a major step to address improve relations by becoming the first Russian or Soviet leader to join Polish officials in commemorating the anniversary. He was joined there by Donald Tusk, Poland?s prime minister.
                    Mr. Tusk was not on the plane that crashed on Saturday morning.
                    Vladimir V. Putin was the first Russian or Soviet leader to jointly commemorate it with his Polish counterpart.
                    He cast the executions as one of many crimes carried out by the ?totalitarian regime? of the Soviet Union.
                    ?We bow our heads to those who bravely met death here,? he said at a ceremony on Wednesday. ?In this ground lay Soviet citizens, burnt in the fire of the Stalinist repression of the 1930s; Polish officers, shot on secret orders; soldiers of the Red Army, executed by the Nazis.?
                    <NYT_AUTHOR_ID>
                    Michal Piotrowsky contributed reporting from Warsaw and Clifford J. Levy from Moscow.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/wo.../11poland.html
                    CSI:WORLD http://swineflumagazine.blogspot.com/

                    treyfish2004@yahoo.com

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                      Re: No survivors in crash of Polish president's plane (Reuters)

                      Polish president among 96 killed in Russia plane crash

                      [Source: Guardian Unlimited, View Original Article. Excerpt.]

                      Lech Kaczynski and wife killed when presidential aircraft crashed near fog-bound airport in west Russia, with no survivors
                      Poland has suffered its worst political disaster since the second world war after its president, Lech Kaczynski, and dozens of top government officials were killed when their plane crashed in thick fog in western Russia this morning.
                      At least 96 people died when the Tupulov aircraft clipped some trees on its approach to Smolensk airport. It then broke up, killing everyone on board. Russian TV showed pictures of the upended wing and smouldering fuselage.
                      Those killed included Kaczynski's wife Maria, the army chief of staff, the head of the national bank, Poland's deputy foreign minister, three members of parliament, and at least two presidential aides, the Polish foreign ministry said. Rescuers today said they had found several bodies and were trying to identify them.
                      Kaczynski had been flying to Smolensk to attend the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, where Soviet secret police executed 15,000 Polish officers in one of the most notorious incidents of the second world war. In a further tragic twist, family members of the Katyn victims were on board the president's plane. Others were waiting at the airport to meet him.
                      "We still cannot fully understand the scope of this tragedy and what it means for us in the future. Nothing like this has ever happened in Poland," Russia's foreign ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski said. "We can assume with great certainty that all persons on board have been killed."
                      (...)Kaczynski is the first serving Polish leader to die since exiled second world war-era leader General Wladyslaw Sikorski perished in a plane crash off Gibraltar in 1943.


                      Luke Harding

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