Pilot error, fog

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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