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Smolensk's Presidential aircraft crash: victims swapped and buried in the wrong grave

Warsaw, Poland - President Lech Kaczy?ski's twin brother: "There should be consequences"

At least two of the victims of the accident occurred on April 10, 2010 when the Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed in Smolensk (Russia), killing all the 96 persons on board, among which there was the President of Poland Lech Kaczy?ski (AVIONEWS), were swapped and eventually buried in the wrong grave: this is the disconcerting conclusion of the exhumation and the following DNA tests which...

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Rome, Italy, 09/26/2012 17:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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