Why lech kaczynski was killed

Additionally, the Polish commission blamed the Russian air traffic controllers for providing pilots with incorrect landing instructions, which made them believe that they were on the right course to land. Since then, the commission has proposed a variety of possible causes for the blast, including the use of an untraceable explosive to blow up the aircraft. Commission members and outside consultants have used sausages, Red Bull cans and a paper aeroplane to illustrate the possible causes of the disaster.

However, members of the commission have refused to examine evidence uncovered by the Russian inquiry, which had access to the crash site on the ground, on the basis that the scene has been manipulated. Euronews contacted Macierewicz and his spokeswoman several times in the three weeks leading up to the publication of this story, however, he was unable to find time to discuss the issue with us.

Tomasz Sakiewicz, editor in chief of the right-wing news magazine Gazeta Polska and chairman of the Polish Independent Publishing Company, dismissed criticism of the commission. Let them do the research. The news of its launch worries many Poles, including opposition politician Ryszard Petru.

While in opposition, Law and Justice party members produced evidence of foul play, often in online videos whose accuracy is impossible to verify. The films include people presented as experts using props such as crushed tins and sausages to explain that the aircraft exploded mid-air before crashing.

Many of the films have been dismissed as using old footage, taken off the internet. One newspaper even reported an expert claiming that a fog-making machine had been used to create poor conditions of visibility at Smolensk. It will lead to a deepening of the divisions among Poles. After the crash, many widows and relatives joined Law and Justice, with some building political careers and even entering parliament.

I do not want to have anything to do with it. Reminders of Smolensk are constant in Poland. Many relatives of the victims have accepted the findings of the initial inquiry. Jacek Kucharczyk, president of the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw, believes the reason for the crash is far more prosaic. He was flying to Smolensk to open his election campaign.

He was determined to be on time. Nobody wanted to take responsibility for diverting the plane. Of the two, Lech was the more likable, with a sense of humour and fun, and a successful marriage. But he was always politically more astute than his brother. Polish investigators say remains of two other people have been found in the coffin of ex-President Lech Kaczynski, who died with dozens of other top officials in a plane crash in Twenty-seven exhumations have been carried out so far since Poland started a new crash investigation last year.

The disaster happened near Smolensk in western Russia, as the government plane was coming in to land in thick fog. Victims' remains were mixed up in 11 other coffins, investigators say. Senior state and military officials had been on their way to a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which more than 20, Polish officers were murdered by the Soviet secret police.

Russian and Polish investigations concluded that the crash was mainly caused by pilot error. But the nationalist Law and Justice party PiS , led by Lech Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, swept to power in October elections, and launched a new investigation. Some PiS members believe the plane was brought down by an explosion. Some also claim that the Russian air traffic controllers deliberately misled the crew.

The shadow of the tragedy continues to darken Polish-Russian relations. Poland started the exhumations last year after errors were allegedly found in Russian forensic documents. In all, 83 exhumations are planned.