Crash probe blames Poles

A RUSSIAN investigation into the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski blamed the Poles, saying the crew was forced to land in bad weather by an air force commander who had been drinking.

Kaczynski and 95 others, including his wife, died last April when their Tu-154 plane crashed trying to land in Smolensk, Russia. There were no survivors.

In Warsaw, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late president’s twin and head of the opposition Law and Justice Party, criticised the Russian report, calling it a “mockery of Poland”.