The
Smolensk air disaster
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria, ...
, which involved Polish Air Force Flight 101 in 2010 killed all 96 people on board, including Polish President
Lech Kaczyński, his wife
Maria Kaczyńska
Maria Helena Kaczyńska (; ; 21 August 1942 – 10 April 2010) was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in the plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.
Early and per ...
and dozens of other senior officials. The Polish delegation was heading to
Katyn to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынская резня ''Katynskaya reznya'', "Katyn massacre", or russian: link=no, Катынский расстрел, ''Katynsky rasstrel'', "Katyn execution" was a series of m ...
, in which the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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killed about 22,000 Polish military officers.
Among those killed in the crash of Flight 101 were former President-in-exile
Ryszard Kaczorowski
Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG (; 26 November 1919 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last President of Poland- in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaini ...
, Poland's highest-ranking military officers, lawmakers, heads of the
Polish National Bank
The Narodowy Bank Polski (; the National Bank of Poland), often abbreviated to NBP, is the central bank of Poland, founded in 1945. It controls the issuing of Poland's currency, the Polish złoty. The bank is headquartered in Warsaw, and has bran ...
and other central institutions, presidential aides, bishops and priests of various denominations, relatives of those killed in the Katyn massacre, as well as officers of the presidential security detail and crew members.
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Fatalities
Posthumous recognition
Not on board
Some early reports were wrong about the number or composition
as the official list of victims was corrected in stages; most notably because the
flight manifest of passengers only, without names of the crew, lacked the name of the only female member of the nine
Biuro Ochrony Rządu
The Government Protection Bureau or Bureau of Government Protection ( pl, 'Biuro Ochrony Rządu, BOR ', ) was Poland's equivalent of the United States Secret Service, providing antiterrorism and VIP security services for the Polish government. O ...
(Government Protection Bureau bodyguards), Agnieszka Pogródka-Węcławek. She was listed incorrectly among the stewardesses. Also, a female presidential aide, Zofia Kruszyńska-Gust, was supposed to fly but did not do so due to illness. Additionally,
Michael Schudrich
Michael Joseph Schudrich (born June 15, 1955) is an American rabbi and the current Chief Rabbi of Poland. He is the oldest of four children of Rabbi David Schudrich and Doris Goldfarb Schudrich.
Biography
Born in New York City, Schudrich lived in ...
, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, was invited but did not board the flight due to its conflict with the Jewish Sabbath, which prohibits flight on Saturday.
References
External links
Federacja Rodzin Katyńskich
National Katyn Memorial Foundation
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Lists of Polish people
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