Polish president dies in plane crash in Russia

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Mr Khan said:

MrBubbles said:
i know the russian planes are shit...and the weather may have been bad.
but i find it hard to rule out the possibility that its the russians acting on them being upset with poland and their current interceptor agreement with the US. and its certainly not above the russian goverment to murder people.

I thought Obama had shelved the interceptor agreement as the horrible idea that it was...

 

It would be something distinctly Russia to do, but it is most likely an accident, and quite a devastating one. Who will take over from Kaczynski?

By Polish constitution all the president authority is transfered to the Marshal of lover chamber of Polish parliament Bronisław Komorowski, the same constitution requires him to within 14 days set a date of new election (which must be within 60 days from the day of annoucment) so before end of July new president will be elected.

 

Also the conspiracy theory is most unlikly - it could be old and outdated but still it was Air Force One so chances of making unnoticed attack that would leave any traces in black boxes are minimal and russians waited for polish experts with accessing them.

At the moment most probably it was a pilot mistake (or rather overconfidence in his ability to land there) :

the weather from above could have looked much better than from the ground, smaller goverment plane with journalists landed on the same airport an hour before (and pilot of plane went to Smolensk airport earlier), pilot had thousands of hours of flightly on this plane and was military and he had very important delegation on board which would be late to the anniversary of death of several thousands of polish officers during WW II