Polish president, 96 others killed in jet crash
Crash occurred in dense fog; pilot ignored directions to land elsewhere
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The flag-draped coffins of the late President Lech Kaczynski, left, and his wife, Maria, are placed on catafalques in St. Mary's Basilica in Krakow, Poland, on Sunday, April 18. (Radek Pietruszka / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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People greet the convoy carrying the coffins of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, in Krakow on April 18. (Joe Klamar / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman prays as people gather on Krakow's market square in front of the Basilica of Our Lady during the funeral ceremony for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, on April 18. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A Polish folk orchestra performs while waiting to take part in the funeral ceremonies for the president and first lady on the Main Market Square in KraKow, Poland, on April 18. (Pawel Supernak / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Mourners are seen during a state ceremony for victims of the presidential plane crash at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, April 17. The crash April 10 near Smolensk, Russia, killed 96 people, including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, and numerous other government leaders. U.S. President Barack Obama had to cancel his attendance at the state funeral on Sunday because ash from an Icelandic volcano halted most flights in the region. (Filip Singer / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Portraits of the Polish president his wife are framed among photographs of the 94 other people killed in the crash during a memorial service in Warsaw. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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The rector of the Wawel cathedral, Prelate Zdzislaw Sochacki, stands near the tomb prepared for the Polish president and his wife inside the Wawel castle in Krakow on April 17. (Petr David Josek / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Workers install a giant cross in front of a banner featuring photographs of the victims of Poland's plane disaster on April 16 in Warsaw. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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The coffins of 34 victims of the plane crash arrive at a military airport in Warsaw on April 15. (Pawel Supernak / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Hearses transport coffins of victims of the plane crash to an arena in Warsaw on April 15. (Bartlomiej Zborowski / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, center, and Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz, right, kneel in front of the coffin of Poland's last president-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, during ceremonies at the military airport in Warsaw on April 15. Kaczorowski was killed in the crash. (Alik Keplicz / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman prays in a church near the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on April 14. (Markus Schreiber / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Thousands of candles stand in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on April 14 in memory of the crash victims. (Lennart Preiss / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman reacts as she pays her respects to Poland's president and his wife. (Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Mourners wait in a snaking line to pay their last respects to Poland's president and his wife, whose coffins were lying in state in the Presidential Palace. The line stretched for more than a kilometer. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A truck transports wreckage at the site of the Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft crash in Smolensk, Russia, on April 14. (Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman passes the coffins of the Polish president and his wife on April 13. (Ints Kalnins / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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During a memorial service at the parliament building in Warsaw, former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late president's brother, stands next to pictures of lawmakers killed in a plane crash. (Stringer/poland / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman lays flowers on a square near the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. (Petr Josek / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A hearse carrying the coffin of Polish first lady Maria Kaczynska is showered with flowers as it arrives at the Presidential Palace three days after she was killed in a plane crash. (Petr David Josek / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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The procession with the coffin of first lady Maria Kaczynska makes its way to the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. (Ints Kalnins / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Polish nuns pray under a giant cross at Pilsudski Square on April 12. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych declared a day of mourning in memory of the crash victims. (Joe Klamar / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A man lights candles at the Mikhaylivsky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, on April 12, after a service for the victims. (Efrem Lukatsky / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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People place flowers next to a piece of wreckage at the plane crash site in Smolensk, western Russia, on April 12. (Mikhail Metzel / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman reads a list showing the names of the plane crash victims. (Markus Schreiber / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Russian police on April 11 guard the wreckage of the Polish plane that crashed near Smolensk airport. (Sergei Chirikov / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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People observe a moment of silence at the gate of the presidential palace in Warsaw Monday in memory of the victims. (Leszek Szymanski / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A man grieves by a piece of the wreckage at the crash site near Smolensk Monday. (Mikhail Metzel / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Poles watch the hearse carrying the coffin of President Lech Kaczynski Monday as it drives through Warsaw. (Grzegorz Jakubowski / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Marta Kaczynska, center, daughter of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, is joined by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, right, who is the twin brother of the late president, as they pay homage to the victims in Warsaw on April 11. (Joe Klamar / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Mourners take photographs of the hearse bearing the coffin of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski as it arrives at the presidential palace in Warsaw on April 11. (Katarzyna Mala / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Warsaw residents lay flowers and light candles at the gate of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on April 11. (Uppa / Zuma Press) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, prays in front of the coffin of his brother at the airport in Warsaw on April 11. (Kacper Pempel / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Russian honor guards carry the coffin of Polish President Lech Kaczynski during a farewell ceremony at the Smolensk airport, western Russia, April 11. (Sergey Ponomarev / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman lighted by a sunbeam attends a Holy Mass in memory of Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Orthodox Archbishop Miron Chodakowski and other officials who were killed in a plane crash Saturday, at a church in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 11. (Petar Petrov / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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People attend a mass Sunday, April 11, at the Wawel Royal Cathedral in Cracow, Poland. The service commemorated those lost when a government jet crashed in Russia, killing the nation's president and numerous other leaders. The delegation was on its way to attend memorial services for the thousands of Polish military officers killed by the Soviets during World War II at Katyn. (Stanislaw Rozpedzik / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Mourners lay candles and flowers outside the Presidential Palace in memory of President Lech Kaczynski on Saturday, April 10, in Warsaw, Poland. Kaczynski and his wife were among the victims of the crash. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Two Russian policemen watch a helicopter carrying victims of the crash near Smolensk airport. (Andrey Smirnov / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A girl scout holds a rose at the gate of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland. (Tomasz Gzell / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Jennifer Wardach, left, sells Polish flags adorned with black ribbons to mark the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski outside her father's store in Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman prays in front of the portrait of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in a Catholic church in Lviv, Ukraine. (Marian Striltsiv / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Employees of the Polish Embassy place the portrait of President Lech Kaczynski near the Embassy headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Chuzavkov / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A huge crowd gathers in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to pay tribute to late Polish President Lech Kaczynski. (Alik Keplicz / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A bus drives by trees cut by the crash of a Polish government aircraft near Smolensk airport in Russia. (Maxim Malinovsky / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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People light candles and lay flowers in front of the Polish Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Mindaugas Kulbis / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Participants of ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre are seen after the announcement that the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in Russia. (Grzegorz Jaklubowski / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Participants of ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Polish-Russian relations had been improving of late after being poisoned for decades over the Katyn massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers. (Grzegorz Jaklubowski / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin light candles at a chapel at the presidential residence outside Moscow, in memory of the members of the Polish government that were killed in the crash. (Ria Novosti / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A man places a memory letter with pictures of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. (Forum / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A man lowers the Polish national flag outside the Polish Embassy in London. (Luke Macgregor / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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A woman cries in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. (Kacper Pempel / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk observes a minute of silence at the start of an urgent session of his cabinet in Warsaw. Tusk declared a week of mourning after the crash. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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This combination of images shows late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria (C) and other Polish officials killed in a plane crash in Smolensk on April 10, 2010. (Clockwork from top L) Presidential office chief, Wladyslaw Stasiak, Deputy parliamentary speaker, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Chief of the Council for National Remembrance, Andrzej Przewoznik, Chief of the Polish Army General Staff, General Franciszek Gagor, Chief of president's National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczyglo, Solidarity trade union heroine of the strikes in the 1980 communist-era Gdansk shipyards, Anna Walentynowicz, Deputy defence minister, Stanislaw Jerzy Komorowski and National Bank of Poland governor, Slawomir Skrzypek. (- / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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This image from Polish Television's TVP via APTN shows a firefighter walking near some of the wreckage at the crash site where Kaczynski, his wife and dozens of others died. (AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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