Polish President Lech Kaczynski (60) died in plane crash...

[Kn'thrak]

Poland aint a rich country to have multiple planes as the US does. It would seems logcal to have em on different planes tho.

[Mithrandir01]

Poland aint a rich country to have multiple planes as the US does. It would seems logcal to have em on different planes tho.

President Kaczynski didn't want to buy new plane for him and goverment...

[jacques1400]

First off, from what I have heard so far the plane itself is not really to blame, it appears that the pilot was asked to divert to Minsk if memory serves me correctly, because of bad weather (fog) and the pilot opted to stay on course. It was his choice which obviously was a bad one. And yes, Poland might not have a large quantity of planes, anyone who ever flew to Poland using LOT will agree that it is not the most comfortable travel available, but putting an entire government leadeship in a single plane is not exactly the best decision either. Leaving aside governments, it has been a corporate policy dating back years that the upper management levels are strictly forbidden to travel together.
Regardless, a loss of this magnitude for a country is very difficult to overcome.

[Haazhel_Thorn]

My condolences to the Polish people.

But for me the biggest tragedy is, that this all happens on the way to a memorial service in Katyn. This is a sadistic irony of history.