List of casualties of the Smolensk air disaster explained

The Smolensk air disaster, included Polish Air Force Flight 101 in 2010 killing all 96 people on board. The Polish delegation was heading to Katyn to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which the Soviet NKVD killed about 22,000 Polish military officers.

Among those killed in the crash of Flight 101 were Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska, former President-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, Poland's highest-ranking military officers, lawmakers, heads of the Polish National Bank and other central institutions, presidential aides, bishops and priests of various denominations, relatives of those killed in the Katyn massacre, as well as officers of the presidential security detail and crew members.__TOC__

Fatalities

NameImageAgeNotes
President of the Polish Bar Council
Representative of the Katyn Families
Commander of the Air Force
Deputy Marshal of the Senate (PO)
Representative of the Katyn Families
Representative of the Katyn Families
Commander of the Land Forces
Archbishop,[1] Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Armed Forces
President of the World Association of Home Army Soldiers
Co-founder of the Union of Warsaw Insurgents
Member of the Sejm (PSL)
Member of the Sejm (PO)
Press office staffer at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
Secretary General of the Union of Sybiraks
39Interpreter at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
Senator (PiS)
41Close protection officer
39Close protection officer
Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
Member of the Sejm, former Minister of Regional Development (PiS)
Commander of the Warsaw Garrison
Member of the Sejm, former Deputy Prime Minister (PiS)
Personal Roman Catholic chaplain to President Kaczorowski and parish priest of St. Andrew Bobola in Hammersmith, London
Co-pilot
Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
Personal Roman Catholic chaplain to President Kaczyński
37Close protection officer
Staffer at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
Flight attendant
Member of the Sejm, former Deputy Prime Minister (SLD)
Roman Catholic priest, Piarist father
Former president of the Republic of Poland in exile
Wife of President Kaczyński
President of the Republic of Poland
Member of the Sejm (PO)
Commander of the Navy
Director of Diplomatic Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ombudsman for Civil Rights
Chancellor of the Order of Virtuti Militari
Deputy Minister of National Defence
35Close protection officer
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Roman Catholic priest, member of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression
President of the Institute of National Remembrance
Roman Catholic police chaplain and chaplain to the Katyn Families
Commander of the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces
Personal physician to President Kaczyński
Representative of the Katyn Families
Flight attendant
Director of the Personnel and Decorations Office at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
President of the Polish Katyn Foundation
Head of the Katyn Committee
Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage, General Conservator of Monuments
Flight engineer
35Close protection officer
Deputy Head of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
Flight attendant
Member of the Sejm (PiS)
Social activist
35Close protection officer
President of the Polish Olympic Committee
Representative of the Katyn Families
Roman Catholic priest, Vice-Chancellor of the Curia of the Military Ordinariate
Lutheran military chaplain
Representative of the Katyn Families
Member of the Sejm, former Marshal of the Sejm (independent)
Roman Catholic Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Armed Forces
35Close protection officer
Commander of the Special Forces
Capt. Pilot
Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (PiS)
Roman Catholic priest, Rector of the Card. Wyszyński University
Member of the Sejm (PO)
President of the Federation of Katyn Families
Sculptor, author of the Katyn Monument in Chicago
President of the National Bank of Poland
75Representative of the Katyn Families
Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, former Minister of the Interior and Administration
36Close protection officer
Head of the National Security Bureau
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, former Defence Minister (SLD)
Member of the Sejm, former Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (SLD)
Head of the Protocolar Unit at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
35Close protection officer
Co-founder of the Solidarity trade union
71Deputy President of the Golgotha of the East Foundation
Member of the Sejm, former Minister for Intelligence Coördination (PiS)
Member of the Sejm (PSL)
Member of the Sejm (PSL)
Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, former President of the Social Insurance Institution
Senator (PiS)
Theatrical and film actor, member of the Program Board of the Union of Piłsudskiites
Navigator
Representative of the Katyn Families

Posthumous recognition

NameImagePromotionDecoration
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Not on board

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 name of the only female member of the nine Biuro Ochrony Rządu (Government Protection Bureau bodyguards), Agnieszka Pogródka-Węcławek. She was listed incorrectly among the stewardesses. Also, a female presidential aide, Zofia Kruszyńska-Gust, was supposed to fly but did not do so due to illness. Additionally, Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, was invited but did not board the flight due to its conflict with the Jewish Sabbath, which prohibits flight on Saturday.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Syosset . Ny . 2010-04-12 . Orthodox Archbishop among those who perished in airplane crash . 2024-04-10 . www.oca.org.
  2. Web site: Prezydenckim Tu-154 leciały najważniejsze osoby w państwie. Polish. 10 April 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100415024851/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1%2C80269%2C7752563%2CPrezydenckim_Tu_154_lecialy_najwazniejsze_osoby_w.html. 15 April 2010.
  3. Web site: Polish president's plane crashes in Russia: ministry . https://web.archive.org/web/20100413184312/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKIo35KuaQYuIFCc2fdArySMvvng. dead. 13 April 2010. 10 April 2010.
  4. Web site: Full list of the passengers and the crew . Official Polish Presidential website . 10 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100413010541/http://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/katastrofa-samolotu/art%2C3%2Clista-pasazerow-rzadowego-samolotu.html . 13 April 2010 .