Polish president, 96 others, dead in plane crash

[cyanide]

Including something like half of the Polish goverment, including his wife and

the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces. Also killed were the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers

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Tragic.

[Cartar]

Saw the news earlier, that's pretty insane. Especially considering that almost everybody in the plane were important state employees (mostly military). Very tragic event for Poland indeed.

[Dee.]

It's very weird since it happened near a place where Russians killed alot of Polands in the early years of war.

[POLISH_BOY]

There have never been as huge tragedy as that plane crash , in Polish, or even entire world's, history. Poland's all in sorrow, could anyone imagine a day when almost all of the most important people in the country die ?! Everyone in Poland (including me) is shocked, I still can't believe it , definietly the biggest tragedy I've ever heard about...


Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland
Maria Kaczynska, the president’s wife
Ryszard Kaczorowski, head of Poland’s London-based government-in-exile during the communist period
General Tadeusz Buk, Head of Polish Land Forces
Leszek Deptula, MP
Grzegorz Dolniak, MP
Katarzyna Doraczynska, President’s Chancellery
Janina Fetlinska, Senator
General Franciszek Gagor, Chief of Staff
Grazyna Gesicka, MP
Przemyslaw Gosiewski, MP
Mariusz Handzlik, Minister at the President’s Chancellery
Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, MP
Sebastian Karpiniuk, MP
Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Head of Polish Navy
Mariusz Kazana, Foreign Ministry
Janusz Kochanowski, Poland’s Ombudsman
Stanislaw Jerzy Komorowski, Deputy Defence Minister
Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Foreign Minister
Janusz Kurtyka, National Remembrance Institute head
Tomasz Merta, Deputy Culture Minister
Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat, MP
Piotr Nurowski, head of Polish Olympics Committee
Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of parliament
Arkadiusz Rybicki, MP
Slawomir Skrzypek, head of Poland’s central bank
Wladyslaw Stasiak, head of Kaczynski’s Chancellery
Aleksander Szczyglo, head of the National Security Bureau
Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Deputy Speaker of parliament
Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, MP
Izabela Tomaszewska, President’s Chancellery
Anna Walentynowicz, former Solidarity activist
Zbigniew Wassermann, MP
Wieslaw Woda, MP
Edward Wojtas, MP
Pawel Wypych, Minister and Kaczynski’s Chancellery
Stanislaw Zajac, Senator

and others dead in the plane crash ;

Rest In Peace

[benji]

There have never been as huge tragedy as that plane crash in ... or even entire world's, history.

Gonna have to disagree there.

[bowdown]

really sad and scary stuff. relating this to sports, a beloved team of a city can go down just like that. They travel countless times a year on airplanes

[Oznogrd]

Yeah but statistically they're much safer than driving a bus or several cars or whatever. Not saying its not sad, certainly is. But its truly rarer than you would think.

[cyanide]

There have never been as huge tragedy as that plane crash , in Polish, or even entire world's, history.

I'll have to agree with benji. I think you're missing an event that took place at say, oh, about 70 years ago.

[benji]

I wasn't thinking that far back, I was thinking more like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_India ... earthquake
Or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake
Or if say, Guam capsized.

[POLISH_BOY]

I've meant something else... I was rather thinking about the sort of that tragedy, there have never been that huge tragedy that so many politicians and other important people died in one moment. Now it's a really difficult situation for people in Poland, no one knows what will be next...

[benji]

You follow the line of succession and then elect new politicians to fill the vacancies.

[Andrew]

Terrible stuff, condolences to their families. I suppose it's not the time to point fingers, but sounds like the pilot made a critical error in judgement.

[Martti.]

Estonia is shocked too, we had a great relationship with Poland (As it turned out.).

My condolences.