Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:57 pmQUOTE
Poles are in deep mourning after President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country's ruling elite were killed in a plane crash.
The aging Tupolev plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia on Saturday, killing all 97 people on board.[/quote]
Sad day for the people of Poland.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/356974...-in-plane-crash
The aging Tupolev plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia on Saturday, killing all 97 people on board.[/quote]
Sad day for the people of Poland.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/356974...-in-plane-crash
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:28 amDevastating really, looking through the list of all the dignitaries who were killed it really is pretty shocking.
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:26 pmI'm Polish (but born in the UK), so I found this bit of news another tragedy to add to Poland's litany of tragedies.
Someone did point out that putting pretty well the whole of the government on one aircraft wasn't exactly a great idea. The irony is that they were going to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn forest massacre - so long denied by the Russians.
Someone did point out that putting pretty well the whole of the government on one aircraft wasn't exactly a great idea. The irony is that they were going to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn forest massacre - so long denied by the Russians.