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...temporary coffin carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should...
...Polish president had been killed in a plane crash, his mother told him, asking him to check the news...
Poland has launched a week of national mourning, following the devastating plane crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as well as several other top-ranking officials. Ninety-six passengers were killed after the aged Russian aircraft, a Tupolev Tu-154, plunged into a forest near the airport in the Russian city of Smolensk. The Polish officials were there to mark the 70th anniversary of a massacre of Polish officers. (Read a 1951 story on the Katyn Forest Massacre...
While the president's role is largely symbolic, the holder can veto government legislation. Lech Kaczynski infuriated the Tusk government several times by blocking legislation including health sector reform. (See pictures of the Buffalo, N.Y. plane crash...
...causes of the crash. So far the most probable cause is the error of judgment on the part of the pilot, who attempted a second landing at the Smolensk airport despite being warned by traffic controllers to divert to Moscow or Minsk because of thick fog. When descending, the plane clipped the tree line and broke in two, resulting in the deadly crash that has sent Poland into mourning...