April 10, 2010. Smolensk. Smolensk plane crash. A plane carrying the Polish president Lech Kaczynski and dozens of the country’s top political and military leaders to the place of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers in WWII crashed near Smolensk, killing everyone on board. Pictured: police blocking the plane crash site at Severny military airport ; a fragment (a wing) of the crashed TU-154 plane in the background between the trees