Poland to charge two Russian officials over Kaczynski plane crash

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, brother of Poland's former President Lech Kaczynski, lays a candle as he takes part in a event outside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, April 10, 2011, held to commemorate the first anniversary of the crash of the presidential plane at Smolensk airport, during which everyone on board was killed, including the President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Friday it would bring charges against two Russian air traffic controllers over a 2010 plane crash which killed then Polish president Lech Kaczynski, a move likely to damage bilateral relations already strained by the Ukraine crisis.

Prosecutor Ireneusz Szelag from the District Military Prosecutors' Office told a news briefing an investigation so far had established that the main cause of the crash was the failure of the plane's crew to respond adequately to bad weather.