Polish President Lech Kaczynski Died in Plane Accidents in Russia

Polish President Lech Kaczynski with a number of senior state officials were died in a plane crash that they rode in Russia, Saturday (4/10/2010). Kaczynski entourage plane crashed while approaching the fog-covered Smolensk Airport in western Russia.

Governor of Smolensk region, Sergei Antufiev, ensure there are no passengers who survived the crash. To the Russian television station-24, via telephone from Smolensk, Antufiev said, “The plane had grabbed the top of the tree (right before we landed), then fell and broke into pieces.” He added, “No one  is safe.”

Russian television pictures showed the wreckage scattered in the woods with parts that are still burning.

Russian news agencies, quoting Russian Emergency Ministry statement, report, there were 132 people in the plane of the Tupolev Tu-154.

Officials in Warsaw ensure plane Kaczynski had fallen. Russian television broadcast a video image taken on Saturday morning before the president and his wife on a plane in Warsaw to the Russians. Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Pszkowski Poland, said the Polish Army Chief of Staff and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer is in the plane.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev immediately appointed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as head of a commission to investigate the crash and send the Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu to the scene. Condole world, hopes the authorities investigate this accident. Rest in peace, Mr. President Lech Kaczynski.