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		Plane carrying Polish President Kaczynski and his wife crashes in Russia, death toll currently at 87 (news.bbc.co.uk)		581
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AbsolutTBomb's alt		2010-04-10 04:03:46 AM

Gyrfalcon		2010-04-10 04:11:30 AM

Quick! Find out where Putin has been in the last 48 hours!

Leeroy Jenkems		2010-04-10 04:11:46 AM

Probably shouldn't have put a screen door on the plane, then.

pnkgtr		2010-04-10 04:11:54 AM

Wow, I hope they find the nuclear football before the corrupt Vice President does.

jiaxiaobo		2010-04-10 04:12:19 AM

Leeroy +1

Errk		2010-04-10 04:12:31 AM

There's going to be a rash of new Polish jokes coming out....

RIP

TheJoe03		2010-04-10 04:12:43 AM

Don't forget about Poland.

Millsey		2010-04-10 04:12:54 AM

Oh no.

RoyBatty		2010-04-10 04:13:24 AM

Leeroy Jenkems: Probably shouldn't have put a screen door on the plane, then.

Came here to say something really stupid and moronic about screen doors, so I'm shaking my fist at you while simultaneously feeling relieved to discover I'm not the only asshole up tonight.

RoyBatty		2010-04-10 04:15:08 AM

Footage (new window)

Putter		2010-04-10 04:15:35 AM

From the BBC:

They were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when Soviets killed thousands of Poles.

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irwhiteboi		2010-04-10 04:15:46 AM

Looks like Poland is about to be invaded again.

oi_piss_me_off		2010-04-10 04:16:29 AM

oh man...

vegaswench		2010-04-10 04:17:10 AM

That sucks. RIP.

Gyrfalcon		2010-04-10 04:17:16 AM

Was there any suspicious radiation signature in the wreckage? Or any mysterious dark-clad Russians lurking about?

rynthetyn		2010-04-10 04:17:34 AM

The BreakingNews twitter feed is reporting that the former president and the head of the Polish army were also on board, as well as possibly the head of Poland's central bank.

That's an awful big chunk of government to get taken out in one instant.

Tachikoma		2010-04-10 04:18:01 AM

I guess their arms got too tired.

/sucky day for Poland
//RIP

Constable Tom		2010-04-10 04:18:12 AM

RIP

category_five		2010-04-10 04:18:18 AM

CIA or KGB?

SuperCatBarf		2010-04-10 04:18:54 AM

That's some pretty serious stuff.

Relatively Obscure		2010-04-10 04:19:08 AM

Well. That's some really bad timing, and apparently there's quite a chunk (well lots of smaller chunks now) of government officials on that plane.

Loki-L		2010-04-10 04:19:25 AM

Was it really him or just his twin?

world's ugliest carpet		2010-04-10 04:20:39 AM

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. But not at the cost of all the others.

Demon of the Fall		2010-04-10 04:20:51 AM

Sh*t, condolences Poland

Mugato		2010-04-10 04:20:52 AM

Constable Tom: RIP

Oh God please for the love of Christ, not the "RIP" meme.

Blues Drive Monster		2010-04-10 04:20:57 AM

Relatively Obscure: (well lots of smaller chunks now)

ಠ_ಠ

texdent		2010-04-10 04:22:16 AM

You know who else had it out for the Polish?

Rreal		2010-04-10 04:22:36 AM

what I'm noticing is they're specifically NOT mentioning if Prez Unabomber died or not.

NicoFinn		2010-04-10 04:22:47 AM

rynthetyn: The BreakingNews twitter feed is reporting that the former president and the head of the Polish army were also on board, as well as possibly the head of Poland's central bank.

That's an awful big chunk of government to get taken out in one instant.

Wouldn't they think of this ahead of time and just not all travel together on the same plane? I know it's slightly paranoid, but you have to think of these things.

MilkIt		2010-04-10 04:22:54 AM

Oh my God! This is not cool!! :(

Wayfarer's Freedom		2010-04-10 04:23:00 AM

So, what weird arse reason will they give for the plain failure?

/This crash seems suspicious!

Mainrodax		2010-04-10 04:23:29 AM

"In other news, a new province of western Russia was formally announced today."

johnsoninca		2010-04-10 04:23:56 AM

The pilot's last transmission mentioned something about Russian runways being very short, but extremely wide.

GreenSun		2010-04-10 04:24:06 AM

"As it was preparing for landing, the Polish president's aircraft did not make it to the landing strip because we launched missiles to blast it into a thousand bits of flaming metal and flesh," he said.

Brettster808		2010-04-10 04:24:07 AM

AP mentioned that the President's wife was also on the plane.

Putter		2010-04-10 04:24:19 AM

RIP

/repeat?

zamboni		2010-04-10 04:24:29 AM

Plane carrying Polish President Kaczynski and his wife crashes in Russia, death toll currently at 87

I hope the recovery team checked to see if it crashed in a cemetery first.

/one ticket... on a Tupolev Tu-154

The Thnikkaman		2010-04-10 04:25:23 AM

RIP WAYNE SZALINSKI

cantsleep		2010-04-10 04:25:45 AM

How many poles does it take to fly a plane?

We don't know yet.

Brettster808		2010-04-10 04:25:51 AM

Brettster808: AP mentioned that the President's wife was also on the plane.

Oh yeah. Headline. Read it. Yeah. Okay.

johnsoninca		2010-04-10 04:26:03 AM

RIP Shoe Polish

Sir Cumference the Flatulent		2010-04-10 04:26:10 AM

Mainrodax: "In other news, a new province of ~~western Russia~~ eastern Germany was formally announced today."

Do you know who else I fixed this for?

ar34 m4n		2010-04-10 04:28:43 AM

The poles must have been on the right-hand side of the plane, making it unstable.

srhp29		2010-04-10 04:28:55 AM

Yet Travis Barker and DJ AM live...(well at least one of them does)

texdent		2010-04-10 04:29:06 AM

RIP Wayne Gretzky

tower of pisa		2010-04-10 04:29:14 AM

Why is everybody making jokes when all those people died and a country is left without its president and other key leaders?

I know farkers love to act like jerky teenagers but come on! This isn't the time.

RIP

NewportBarGuy		2010-04-10 04:30:52 AM

Who's keeping an eye on Germany?

Decados		2010-04-10 04:31:10 AM

And here's Pres Obama's 3am phone call...

The Thnikkaman		2010-04-10 04:31:12 AM

tower of pisa: Why is everybody making jokes when all those people died and a country is left without its president and other key leaders?

I know farkers love to act like jerky teenagers but come on! This isn't the time.

RIP

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