The Polish president's plane has crashed as it approached a Russian airport, killing all people onboard.
President Lech Kaczynski was travelling with his wife from Warsaw to Smolensk airport, 220 miles southwest of Moscow.
Sergei Antufiev, the regional governor of the Smolensk, said that everyone on board had been killed.
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According to some sources, ground controllers from Smolensk airport Control Tower ordered pilot to land in Minsk airport due to very bad weather conditions in Smolensk airport ( fog ). Pilot refused and tried to make at least 4 attempts to land.
My sincere condolences to families of victims.....