Polish leader's jet likely exploded just before 2010 crash: commission


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Apr 2017

A movie is projected during a new Polish government commission statement on the seventh anniversary of the crash of the Polish government plane in Smolensk, Russia, that killed 96 people on board including late President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, in Warsaw, Poland April 10, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - The plane that crashed and killed Poland's president and 95 others in 2010 probably disintegrated in mid-air when explosives were detonated on board, a Polish government commission said on Monday - a theory that a member of a previous commission dismissed as "propaganda".

The new commission presented its preliminary findings on the seventh anniversary of the catastrophe in western Russia, which killed President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, top army brass and several lawmakers.

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