(via lookalikelike)
The Polish plane crash passenger list in which the Polish President died has just been released to the media and suddenly the enormity of the situation becomes a lot more grave. The passenger list reads like a who’s who of Polish politics and will surely have enormous repercussions for the country.
Polish Plane Crash Passenger List
Here follows part of the airplane’s manifest for the fatal flight that went down earlier today under severe fog conditions:
- Lech Kaczynski, President of the Republic of Poland
- Maria Kaczynska, the president’s wife
- Ryszard Kaczorowski, head of Poland’s London-based government-in-exile during the communist period
- General Tadeusz Buk, Head of Polish Land Forces
- Leszek Deptula, MP
- Grzegorz Dolniak, MP
- Katarzyna Doraczynska, President’s Chancellery
- Janina Fetlinska, Senator
- General Franciszek Gagor, Chief of Staff
- Grazyna Gesicka, MP
- Przemyslaw Gosiewski, MP
- Mariusz Handzlik, Minister at the President’s Chancellery
- Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, MP
- Sebastian Karpiniuk, MP
- Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Head of Polish Navy
- Mariusz Kazana, Foreign Ministry
- Janusz Kochanowski, Poland’s Ombudsman
- Stanislaw Jerzy Komorowski, Deputy Defence Minister
- Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Foreign Minister
- Janusz Kurtyka, National Remembrance Institute head
- Tomasz Merta, Deputy Culture Minister
- Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat, MP
- Piotr Nurowski, head of Polish Olympics Committee
- Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of parliament
- Arkadiusz Rybicki, MP
- Slawomir Skrzypek, head of Poland’s central bank
- Wladyslaw Stasiak, head of Kaczynski’s Chancellery
- Aleksander Szczyglo, head of the National Security Bureau
- Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Deputy Speaker of parliament
- Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, MP
- Izabela Tomaszewska, President’s Chancellery
- Anna Walentynowicz, former Solidarity activist
- Zbigniew Wassermann, MP
- Wieslaw Woda, MP
- Edward Wojtas, MP
- Pawel Wypych, Minister and Kaczynski’s Chancellery
- Stanislaw Zajac, Senator
With so many influential figures dead, Poland faces a period of political restructuring that those in Poland are loathe to begin, given they want to respect the dead and not appear to be clawing their way to power.
There will be more updates as more of the 96 names are discovered. This is a tragic day for Poland and there will be a 2 minute silence in memory of those who lost their lives today on Sunday April 11th 12pm C.E.T.



