Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:



Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish soldier and politician, 6th President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1919)

Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)

Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (b. 1949)

Anna Walentynowicz, Ukrainian-Polish journalist and activist (b. 1929)




The Smolensk air disaster, which involved Polish Air Force Flight 101 in 2010 killed all 96 people on board, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and dozens of other senior officials. 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 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.