As most people know, President Lech Kaczynski died last Saturday in a plane crash during a hard landing somewhere in Russia. Because many important people of the Polish government were in the plane during the accident, most people thought that it could be a terrorist attack. “Fortunately” it was not the case and it was an error of the person flying the plane. A lot of presidents have sent their condolences to the people of Poland and to the families of the people who died during the crash. Russian and Polish investigators are working side by side to analyze the flight recorders and evidence from Saturday's crash in Smolensk. Russian news agencies are quoting the transport ministry spokesman in saying the voice and data recorders are being analyzed at a special laboratory in the presence of Russian and Polish officials.
The body of Poland's president Lech Kaczynski arrived back home Sunday as his stunned nation mourned the elite victims of a jet crash in Russia that has left intense focus on the pilots' last actions. After observing a nationwide two-minute silence for the 96 dead, tens of thousands lined the route taken by the casket from Warsaw airport to the presidential palace. Also killed in the crash were Poland's national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and Kaczynski’s wife, Maria. It was a big coincidence that the country’s leaders were on the same plane at the time of the accident. Among the country’s leader that expressed their condolences to President Kaczynski was the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu that said that Kaczynski was "a leader who did much for his country" and his death "constitutes a great loss for the Polish people and all peace- and freedom-loving nations”. Also, prime minister of England Gordon Brown said that Lech Kaczynski was a person that fought very hard to get his country’s freedom. Without a doubt everyone will remember Lech Kaczynski as a great man that did a lot for Poland, let’s hope that he is in a better place right now.
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