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Probe should show true reasons of Kaczynski plane crash - foreign minister

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A joint Russian-Polish commission will be able to find the true reasons of a recent plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski

A joint Russian-Polish commission will be able to find the true reasons of a recent plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Sunday.

Kaczynski, his wife, and an official delegation of senior officials died when the plane taking them to a ceremony to pay tribute to some 20,000 Polish officers murdered by Soviet secret police crashed near west Russia's Smolensk on April 10.

There were 96 people aboard the plane, including 8 crewmembers. No one survived.

Sikorski said in an interview with CNN that in his opinion the plane crash was due to a combination of several factors: extremely bad weather, a rather primitive aerodrome and the pilot's error.

The Polish top diplomat rejected the speculations that the air crash could have been the result of deliberate actions.

Russian investigators, experts and Polish specialists are jointly investigating the causes of the deadly crash and Polish military prosecutors are conducting their own investigations.

WARSAW, May 2 (RIA Novosti) 

 

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