Apr 10, 2010 12:03
и никому не дано в этой жизни никаких гарантий...
29 mins ago
WARSAW (AFP) - A plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski on board crashed Saturday on landing at Smolensk in western Russia, foreign ministry spokesman Piotr Pszkowski said.
"The plane scraped the tree tops, crashed and caught fire," he said on the private television channel TVN24.
"On board were the president, accompanied by his wife, the army chief of staff and Deputy Foreign Minisiter Andrzej Kremer," he said.
The plane, a Tupolev 154, had a capacity of up to 90 people, he added.
The regional governor of Smolensk said there were no survivors.
"It clipped the tops of the trees, crashed down and broke into pieces," the governor of the Smolensk region, Sergei Antufiev, told Russia-24 television news network by telephone.
"There were no survivors."
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