Saddened schocked with this morning's plane crash in Russia.
The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among around 100 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning. Russia's foreign ministry confirmed the cause of the air catastrophe was bad weather.
"According to provisional information the crash happened because the plane failed to land at the military airport near Smolensk in conditions of severe fog,' one official said. The governor of the west Russian town of Smolensk confirmed there were no survivors from the Tupulov Tu-154 plane, which came down at 11am (7am GMT) about a mile (1.5km) from Smolensk airport.
Lech Kaczynski was elected as Poland's president in 2005 as candidate of the Law and Justice Party. As mayor of Warsaw, he twice banned gay parades and spoke in support of reintroducing the death penalty.
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The Guardian
Lech Kaczynski profile at BBC
Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash wikipedia
