RIP Polish President Lech Kaczynski

[ggould]

Plane crash

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

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.

[princessofcairo]

Plane crash

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

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.

[urth]

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.