Smolensk plane crash

[winter]

The plane carrying the Polish president, his wife and various officials just crashed in Smolensk, due to fog while landing

I'm... numb. I didn't vote for him, but oh, he loved cats (and Cats the musical), couldn't stand dancing vampires, during a visit to Japan his wife got dressed up in a kimono and squeed like a teenage girl showing it off to reporters. The military bishops (Catholic and Orthodox) were there too, and the guy who was the last president of our government-in-exile during Communism.

Past tense, already, and I hope, hope so much for survivors...

EDIT: Confirmed no survivors. Head of the National Bank of Poland, too, and top three or four of the major opposition party (which the president was part of). And all due to an ancient Russian plane that they were to replace ten years ago and got bogged down in public procurement. 87 dead.

Comments

[alice_montrose]

I was away for the day, but ATM it's all over the news here as well. I'm not really sure what I could possibly say. Politics aside, this must a great loss for the whole Polish nation, not to mention descendants of Polish families everywhere and... well, other people besides. Me, I'm just staring at the news in shock.

*huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs*

[winter]

It's just the way when someone you know well dies, only it happened to the whole country :(