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News reports suggest the Polish President is dead, dying in a plane accident. Lech Kaczynski and his wife were on board the aircraft which crashed with no survivors.
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whoah, damn... it seems as if the Polish Army chief of staff, and numerous other Polish leaders are also dead....
my condolences to the Polish people.Comment
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Apparently the president and his wife, a former president-in-exile, the chief of staff, the navy commander, the army commander, the air force commander, the special forces commander, the central bank president, the ambassador to Russia, 15 members of parliament, various representatives of Katyn remembrance organizations, and many other diplomats and dignitaries were on the plane.
How incredibly ironic.Comment
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And it seems they trusted a 20 year old Russian plane. That was their error.Comment
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Don't forget a Polish pilot...Comment
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Two years ago:
Military Plane Crashes in Poland After Flight Safety Conference; 20 Dead
Thursday, January 24, 2008
WARSAW, Poland — A military plane crashed in a forested area in northwestern Poland, killing 20 people, the prime minister said early Thursday. The officers had been attending a flight safety conference in Warsaw.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the plane crash, which occurred as it was about to land Wednesday evening. The 20 victims included a brigadier general and four crew members, he said.
"Soldiers, husbands, and fathers have died, and that is the most tragic result of this catastrophe," said Tusk, who had rushed to the site of the accident.
He called it a "huge loss for the Polish air force."
The air force plane carrying 16 passengers and four crew members was approaching an air force airstrip at Miroslawiec shortly after 7 p.m. (1800 GMT) when it crashed in a forested area.
The aircraft, a Spanish-built CASA C-295M military transport plane, was about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the airstrip when it clipped trees on its approach, crashed into a wooded area and burst into flames, officials said.
Officials did not say what caused the crash.
The plane originally had more people on board when it took off from Warsaw, but had already landed at three other military airports -- in Powidz, Poznan and Krzesiny -- to return soldiers to their home bases. It had two more planned stops to make, in Swidwin and Krakow.
Tusk said it was ominous that the victims "were returning to their units from a conference devoted ... to flight safety."
Polish media described the accident as one of the worst military disasters in more than three decades, and President Lech Kaczynski, on a visit to Croatia, was cutting short his trip to return to Poland on Thursday, a spokesman said.
Among those killed were Brig. Gen. Andrzej Andrzejewski, commander of an air brigade based in Swidwin, as well as the commander of the Miroslawiec air base, Lt. Jerzy Pilat, said Defense Minister Bogdan Klich, who rushed to the site of the accident along with the prime minister.
If that was one of the worst military disasters in three decades, then what about the accident today. Unprecedented?Comment
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I'm really not getting how that's ironic. Do the Poles have a policy of flying lots of important people together in one plane to protect them, or something?Originally posted by Kitschum View PostComment
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I assume he meant ironic in relation to Katyn.BlahComment
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Katyn, like BeBro said. But yeah what's up with all flying in one plane? What an incredible oversight.Originally posted by Elok View PostComment
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Apparently the plane clipped trees. Again.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Pilot error has been blamed for the tragedy after it emerged he turned down the opportunity to land at an alternative runway in thick fog. Witnesses said the pilot made three or four attempts to land before crashing into woodland nearby...
A Polish government official said 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 Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer were on the passenger list...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0khm8RfYf
Sorry, Poles. Dark day.Comment
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That's a terrible tragedy for the Polish people. At least their PM wasn't on that plane and there's someone left to govern the country. However, I cannot believe that was actually Polish presidential aircraft. How could they entrust his life to this piece of junk?Graffiti in a public toilet
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Among the poets we are ****.Comment
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Onodera's right. Nobody should ever fly in a Russian built plane.John Brown did nothing wrong.Comment
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20 years old isn't really old. Well, not for American made aircraft.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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