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A Polish report into the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed President Lech Kaczyński blames the Polish crew and Russian air traffic controllers for the accident.
2011-07-29

Poland publishes the transcript of flight data recorders from the fatal 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash which killed 96 officials and intellectuals on 10 April.
2010-06-1

The volcano disrupts the state funeral of Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland, and his wife Maria, killed in a plane crash with 94 others near Smolensk.
2010-04-18

The body of Poland's First Lady, Maria Kaczyńska, is flown to Warsaw to lie in state alongside that of her husband, President Lech Kaczyński. Poland has seen an outpouring of grief since the couple and scores of other senior Polish officials died in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday.
2010-04-13

Polish President Lech Kaczyński lies in state in Warsaw as Russia marks a day of mourning and Poland appoints an acting head of the central bank to replace the one killed in Saturday's air disaster near Smolensk.
2010-04-12

Lech Wałęsa calls it "the second disaster after Katyn ... They wanted to cut off our head there, and here the flower of our nation has also perished".
2010-04-10

A Tu-154 from the 36th Special Aviation Regiment crashes while landing at military airport Severny in Smolensk Oblast, Russia; 96 persons onboard are reported dead. Pilot error is seen as a possible cause of the crash.
2010-04-10

Russia and Lithuania prepare for an official day of mourning for the death of Poland's President Kaczyński and other persons on board.
2010-04-10

The plane carried President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his economist wife, army chief, central bank governor, MPs, leading historians, and many top Polish government officials to their deaths.
2010-04-10