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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: ggould on April 10, 2010, 04:50:02 PM

Title: RIP Polish President Lech Kaczynski
Post by: ggould on April 10, 2010, 04:50:02 PM
Plane crash

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/10/international/i014311D24.DTL

Quote from: opening paragraph
The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland's military, political and church elite Saturday, killing the Polish president and dozens of other dignitaries as they traveled to a ceremony commemorating a slaughter that has divided the two nations for seven decades.
Title: Re: RIP Polish President Lech Kaczynski
Post by: princessofcairo on April 12, 2010, 04:26:01 AM
Quote from: ggould on April 10, 2010, 04:50:02 PM
Plane crash

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/10/international/i014311D24.DTL

Quote from: opening paragraph
The crash of an aging Russian airliner ravaged the top levels of Poland's military, political and church elite Saturday, killing the Polish president and dozens of other dignitaries as they traveled to a ceremony commemorating a slaughter that has divided the two nations for seven decades.


Next time, take two planes! Cursed forest, indeed.
Title: Re: RIP Polish President Lech Kaczynski
Post by: urth on April 12, 2010, 10:32:59 AM
Quote from: princessofcairo on April 12, 2010, 04:26:01 AM

Next time, take two planes! Cursed forest, indeed.

Usually that's standard procedure. Why the Poles chose to ignore it this time and put so many ranking officials in one aging jet is a question that will probably never be answered completely.