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Namaste,

 

Polish president, Lech Kaczynski died this morning in Russia, when the plane

crashed. There were 86 people in total who lost their lives in this crash.

 

Poland's army chief, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians were

among more than 80 passengers.

 

They were flying in from Warsaw to mark 70 years since the Katyn massacre of

thousands of Poles by Soviet forces.

 

10th April 2010.

Place: Smolensk, Russia

Time:1056 Moscow time (0656 GMT)

 

Late president of Poland Sri LECH KACZYNSKI was born at 2 : 45 ON DATE 18 June

1949 .The place of birth was Warsaw with 21E00 and 52N25 TZ had been 1 Hr East.

He is one of twins, his other brother was born 45 mins apart.

 

warmest regards

Sheevani

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Namaste,

 

 

Air disasters timeline

 

A chronology of some of the world's recent air disasters:

 

 

2010

 

10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes

near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.

 

25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people

on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.

 

2009

 

15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route

to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.

 

30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean

near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.

 

1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes

into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50

bodies in the ocean.

 

20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village

on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.

 

6 April: An Indonesian army Fokker-27 crashes on landing near Bandung, West

Java, killing 24 people.

 

25 February: A flight from Istanbul to Amsterdam crashes short of the runway at

Schiphol international airport. Of the 135 people on board, nine are killed and

at least 50 injured.

 

12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York,

killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.

 

8 February: A passenger plane crashes into a river in the Brazilian state of

Amazonas, killing 24 people, most of whom were from the same family.

 

2008

 

14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of

Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.

 

24 August: A passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Kyrgyzstan's

capital, Bishkek, killing 68 people.

 

20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas

airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.

 

Wreckage of the Spanair MD82, 21 August 2008 [Pic: EFE]

Three days of mourning was declared after the Madrid air disaster

 

2 May: South Sudan's defence minister is among 22 people killed after engine

trouble causes a plane carrying a military delegation to crash about 400km (250

miles) west of Juba.

 

15 April: Some 40 people die when a DC-9 skids off the runway while attempting

to take off in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma during

heavy rain, smashing through a wall and into a busy residential area.

 

24 January: Nineteen people die when a Polish Casa C-295M military transport

plane crashes in the country's north-west, carrying officials who had attended

an air safety conference.

 

2007

 

30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it

crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about

12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.

 

16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on

landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.

 

17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao

Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed -

all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.

 

5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon,

killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of

the disaster.

 

7 March: An Indonesian jet crashed and burst into flames on landing at

Yogyakarta airport in Java, killing 22 people. The state-owned Garuda airline,

which operated the Boeing 737-400, said that 118 people had survived.

 

1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes

down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on

board are presumed dead.

 

2006

 

29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the

Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a

private jet in mid-air.

 

27 August: A Comair CRJ-100 jet goes down shortly after taking off from

Lexington in the US state of Kentucky, killing 49 people.

 

22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board

crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.

 

9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk

airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive

the crash.

 

3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing

all 113 people on board.

 

2005

 

10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of

Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.

 

6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the

Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.

 

22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes

soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.

 

The crash site of Mandala Airlines flight A330

The Mandala crash in Medan in Indonesia killed more than 100

 

5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board

crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on

board and dozens on the ground.

 

23 August: A Tans airline Boeing 737-200 crashes on an internal flight in Peru,

near the city of Pucallpa. There are 40 people reported dead and 58 survivors.

 

16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a

remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner,

heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean

island.

 

14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Prague with 121 people on

board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in

cabin pressure.

 

16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's

island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.

 

3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high

mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from

radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.

 

2004

 

21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of

Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board

and two on the ground, officials say.

 

3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into

the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought

to be French tourists.

 

2003

 

25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African

state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.

 

8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people

on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.

 

26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in

north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish

peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.

 

8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp

of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off,

sucking them out.

 

6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote

Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.

 

19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes

in the south of the country, killing all on board.

 

8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes

while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.

 

2002

 

23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in

central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard.

German air crash, July 2002

The 2002 collision in Germany was blamed on air traffic control

 

The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built

under licence.

 

27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian

town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.

 

1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154

aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane

over southern Germany.

 

25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines -

crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers

and crew on board.

 

7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea

near Dalian in north-east China.

 

7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55

passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.

 

4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city

of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.

 

15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea,

with over 160 passengers and crew on board.

 

12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west

of Iran, killing all 117 on board.

 

29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains

in Colombia, killing 92 people.

 

2001

 

12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes

after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing

all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.

 

8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small

plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.

 

4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154, en route from Tel Aviv to

Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea,

killing 78 passengers and crew.

 

3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154, en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains

to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk,

killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.

 

2000

 

30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after

take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.

 

23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in

Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.

 

25 July: Air France Concorde Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes

into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including

four on the ground.

 

17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at

Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.

 

19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on

approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.

 

31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into

ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.

 

30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after

takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of

the 179 people on board die.

 

1999

 

31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off

from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all

217 on board.

 

24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's

coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the

Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou

are killed.

 

1998

 

11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight

during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.

 

2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic

Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.

 

16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's

Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from

Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.

 

2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines,

killing all 104 people aboard.

 

warmest regards

Sheevani

 

, " Sheevani " <sheevani147

wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

> Polish president, Lech Kaczynski died this morning in Russia, when the plane

crashed. There were 86 people in total who lost their lives in this crash.

>

> Poland's army chief, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians were

among more than 80 passengers.

>

> They were flying in from Warsaw to mark 70 years since the Katyn massacre of

thousands of Poles by Soviet forces.

>

> 10th April 2010.

> Place: Smolensk, Russia

> Time:1056 Moscow time (0656 GMT)

>

> Late president of Poland Sri LECH KACZYNSKI was born at 2 : 45 ON DATE 18 June

1949 .The place of birth was Warsaw with 21E00 and 52N25 TZ had been 1 Hr East.

He is one of twins, his other brother was born 45 mins apart.

>

> warmest regards

> Sheevani

>

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