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List of casualties of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash


The Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash on 10 April 2010 near Smolensk in Russia killed all 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński 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 in which the Soviet NKVD killed about 22,000 Polish military officers.

Among those killed in the crash were President Kaczyński's wife, Maria Kaczyńska, former President-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, Poland's highest-ranking military officers, lawmakers, heads of the Polish National Bank 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.

President Lech Kaczyński and his wife, Maria Kaczyńska

Former President-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski

Deputy Sejm Speaker Krzysztof Putra

Deputy Sejm Speaker Jerzy Szmajdziński

Deputy Senate Speaker Krystyna Bochenek

Aleksander Szczygło, head of the National Security Bureau

Central banker Sławomir Skrzypek

Janusz Kurtyka, head of the Institute of National Remembrance


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