Air Crash Investigations - Polish President Dies in Air Crash - The Crash of Polish Air Force Flight 101

On April 10, 2010 at 10:41 local time, a Tupolev-154M aircraft of the State Aviation of the Republic of Poland crashed while conducting a non-regular international flight PLF 101 from Warsaw, Poland, to Smolensk, Russia. A Russian State Investigation Commission investigated the causes of the Tu-154 aircraft accident. The Investigator-in-Charge for the State Commission was the Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation. The Commission concluded that the cause of the accident was the failure of the crew to take a timely decision to proceed to an alternate airdrome due to weather conditions at the airport of destination. All 96 persons on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife, died in the crash.