List of casualties of the Smolensk air disaster
In the 10 April 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, all 96 persons aboard (89 passengers and 7 crewmembers–four in the cockpit and three stewardesses)[1] died. Some early reports were wrong about the number or composition[2][3][4] as the official list of victims was corrected in stages; most notably because the flight manifest of passengers only, without names of the crew, lacked the only female of 9 Biuro Ochrony Rządu bodyguards Agnieszka Pogródka-Węcławek, thus sometimes listed among the stewardesses after the correction. Also, presidential aide Zofia Kruszyńska-Gust was to fly but didn't arrive at the airport as she felt sick.
Presidential and governmental figures
- Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland
- Maria Kaczyńska, wife of the President
- Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
- Ryszard Kaczorowski, the former President of the Polish government-in-exile
- Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Tomasz Merta, Deputy Minister of Culture
- Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
- Władysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
- Aleksander Szczygło, Head of the National Security Bureau
- Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Military figures
- Lieutenant General Andrzej Błasik, Commander of the Polish Air Force
- Major General Tadeusz Buk, Commander of the Polish Land Forces
- General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
- Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison
- Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander of the Polish Navy
- Brigadier General Stanisław Komornicki, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari
- Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command
- Major General Włodzimierz Potasiński, Commander of the Polish Special Forces
Six of the seven highest military commanders (the Commander-in-Chief, i.e. President, the Chief of the General Staff and all four Branch Commanders) of the Polish Armed Forces were killed. The Minister of Defence, Bogdan Klich, was not on the plane.
Senate members
- Krystyna Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senate
- Janina Fetlińska
- Stanisław Zając
Sejm members
- Leszek Deptuła
- Grzegorz Dolniak
- Grażyna Gęsicka
- Przemysław Gosiewski
- Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
- Sebastian Karpiniuk
- Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
- Maciej Płażyński
- Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
- Arkadiusz Rybicki
- Jerzy Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
- Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
- Zbigniew Wassermann
- Wiesław Woda
- Edward Wojtas
Religious figures
- Archbishop Miron Chodakowski, Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army
- Tadeusz Płoski, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army
- Ryszard Rumianek, Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
- Bronisław Gostomski, prelate in London-North decanate, provost of St Andrew Bobola parish in London
Others
- Joanna Agacka-Indecka, President of the Polish Bar Council
- Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights
- Janusz Kurtyka, historian and President of the Institute of National Remembrance
- Piotr Nurowski, tennis player and President of the Polish Olympic Committee
- Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
- Wojciech Seweryn, Polish-American artist [5]
- Anna Walentynowicz, a major activist of the free trade union Solidarity in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Janusz Zakrzeński, actor
References
- ^ Official list of victims, Polish Ministry of Interior website
- ^ "Prezydenckim Tu-154 leciały najważniejsze osoby w państwie" (in Polish). Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ "Polish president's plane crashes in Russia: ministry". Google. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ "Full list of the passengers and the crew". Official Polish Presidential website. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ "Chicago artist among the dead in Polish plane crash". Chicago Sun-Times. 2004-04-10.
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