Nation Mourns 20 Dead Airmen

25th January 2008

A Polish CASA C-295 transport.

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President Lech Kaczyński declared a three-day national period of mourning on Thursday, after 20 Polish Air Force men were killed in a plane crash in the north-west of Poland late on Jan. 23. Parliament held a minute of silence for the dead and Prime Minister Donald Tusk rushed to the site to talk with relatives and take charge of an initial investigation.

President Lech Kaczyński declared a three-day national period of mourning on Thursday, after 20 Polish Air Force men were killed in a plane crash in the north-west of Poland late on Jan. 23.
All on board were killed when the CASA C-295 military transport aircraft crashed on approach to an airfield near the town of Mirosławiec.
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