Polish President Lech Kaczynski and several high ranking members of his government died when the president's plane crashed in russia. russian athorities say no one on the plane survived the crash. 97 people are confermed dead. the plane was landing when the crash occured. the black boxes have been found and are being examened at this time. the cause of the crash is unknown. for more information see http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/10/poland.president.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1

RIP

"The president of Poland was killed in a plane crash on Saturday in western Russia, setting off a new cycle of grievances between Russia and Poland on a day that was supposed to serve the cause of reconciliation between them. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of his top security officials were among the 96 people killed in the crash. As the fuselage of the Soviet-made Tupelov airplane (operated by a Polish airliner) still smoldered in forest near the city of Smolensk, the grim irony of their deaths became clear to the stunned Polish nation: Their president had been on his way to Russia to commemorate the massacre of tens of thousands of Poles, who had been executed on the order of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1940 in those same forests in the region of Smolensk"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100410/wl_time/08599198106000

Sad...very sad day that could have implications far past the tragedy.