April 18, 2009 marks the funeral day of the Polish President along with his wife and other leaders of the country who died in a plane crash a week earlier. Pilot error was said to be the cause of the crash as the pilot attempted to land three times through the foggy atmosphere before finally crashing in.
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Polish President Lech Kaczynski his wife Maria and the other country leaders were headed to Russia when this sad event happened. Sky news reported that a total of 96 people were killed because of the crash.
From http://www.dailymail.co.uk
President Lech Kaczynski and the first lady’s state funeral was held in Krakow’s Wawel Cathedral which is a historic resting place of the country’s leaders.
Here are the names of people who passed away in the Polish plane crash. (from http://uktodaynews.com)
Lech Kaczysnki — Polish president.
Maria Kaczynska — The president’s wife.
Ryszard Kaczorowski — Poland’s last president-in-exile
Andrzej Kremer — Deputy Foreign Minister
Gen. Franciszek Gagor — head of the army chief of staff
Andrzej Kremer — Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Aleksander Szczyglo — Head of the National Security Office
Pawel Wypych — Presidential aide
Mariusz Handzlik — Presidential aide
Jerzego Szmajdzinski — Deputy parliament speaker
Gen. Franciszek Gagor — Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army
Andrzej Przewoznik — Minister in charge of WWII memorials
Slawomir Skrzypek — Head of the National Bank of Poland
Janusz Kurtyka — Head of the National Remembrance Institute
Przemyslaw Gosiewski — Lawmaker
Zbigniew Wassermann — Lawmaker
Grzegorz Dolniak — Lawmaker
Janusz Kochanowski — Civil rights commissioner
Bishop Tadeusz Ploski — army chaplain
Anna Walentynowicz, former Solidarity activist
Wieslaw Woda, MP
Edward Wojtas, MP
Pawel Wypych, Minister and Kaczynski’s Chancellery
Stanislaw Zajac, Senator
Piotr Nurowski, head of Polish Olympics Committee
Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of parliament
The people seemed to love their leader. I wonder what will the people of the Philippines do if that happened *grin*