In a plane crash near Smolensk, President of Poland Lech Kachinsky was killed with his wife, the vice speaker of the Polish parliament, as well as dozens of representatives of the military command of the country and the clergy, according to the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza . The Tu-154 aircraft when landing caught on the trees, fell in the forest and caught fire two kilometers from the runway.

The plane crash near Smolensk, in which President of Poland Lech Kachinsky and representatives of the country's leadership died, caused a strange reaction from the Russian Communists.

“This is an incredible loss for Poland, the country is in shock. In addition to the president, the entire leadership of the presidential administration, the leadership of both chambers of the Polish parliament, the command of the Polish armed forces were on board. The Polish army remained beheaded, ”comments on the plane crash under Smolensk a famous Polish journalist, editor of Opendemocracy Russia Sigmont Jocholovsky.

President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order "On the creation of the State Commission to establish the reasons for the Tu-154 aircraft disaster, the Kremlin press service said. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed chairman of this commission, he was instructed to determine the composition of the state commission.

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At the military airfield, the North Smolensk region crashed the Tu-154 Polish President Lech Kachinsky Kachinsky and his wife was also on the plane. According to Russia 24 , the incident occurred when landing. 87 people died - all on board. Rescuers work at the site of the disaster. “At 10:56 Moscow time, when landing, the Tu -154 plane crashed, which operated from Warsaw to Smolensk.

In Kamchatka, 9 out of 16 passengers of a helicopter fell under an avalanche . They are sent to the hospital, the search for other snowboarders is being conducted. All passengers are German citizens. The head of the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Sergey Viktorov said that the helicopter carried a group of snowboarders in reserved places.

On behalf of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu and the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin flew to the place of the disaster of the Polish Polish aircraft near Smolensk. The information that appeared earlier that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew out at the place of the tragedy.

The Polish TVN24 television channel cited a permanent chronicle of the events of today, when a plane of Polish President Lech Kachinsky, who, as part of a large delegation, flew to participate in mourning events in Katyn, crashed under Smolensk. It is noted that information about the disaster in the media appeared almost immediately.

On Sunday, in the morning, a book of condolences will be opened at the Polish embassy in Kiev, the editor -in -chief of the Polish newspaper Jennik Kiyovski, Stanislav Pantelik, told Polit.ua . Now representatives of the Polish community carry flowers to the embassy, ​​tomorrow all the mourners will gather in the service of the church and after that they will lay flowers in memory of those who died in a plane crash in Smolensk.

In an interview with RBC-TV, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the plane, on board of which was Polish President Lech Kachinsky, crashed in a thick fog. The plane crash occurred at 10:45, the plane did not reach the boarding strip 300-400 meters, the tail of the ground fell off the ground on the ground. Investigators work at the site of the disaster, black boxes have not yet been found. Employees of the Polish embassy left for the disaster.

One of the most significant on a global scale by a political figure, which became a victim of a crash, was the Secretary General of the United Nations Swede Dag Yalmar Agne Karl Hammarscheld. His plane crashed on September 18, 1961, when the UN Secretary General was heading with a peacekeeping mission to the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Together with Hammarscheld, several senior representatives of the UN and the central government of the Congo were killed.

Poland will conduct a own investigation of the crash under the Smolensk Tu-154 aircraft, on which the President of the country Lech Kachinsky was located with his wife, as well as representatives of the Polish leadership. Such an instruction was given by Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremeth at the request of the Minister of Justice - Krzishtof Kvyatkovsky, Gazeta Wyborcza reports.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations again clarified the data on the number of deaths in the plane crash with representatives of the Polish leadership. According to the ministry, there were 96 people on board. Among the dead were commanders of all branches of the Polish armed forces, REGNUM reports . Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynska.

The heads of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev arrived at the crash site with the Polish delegation near Smolensk. Also at the scene is the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin and the head of the SCP FR Alexander Bastrykin.