All the most important people in the polish government died, president of the country, president of the national bank, etc.
According to the polish constitution, the head of our congress takes over as president and appoints replacements for all the other constitutional positions to replace the people who were on board.
They have confirmed that it wasn't the fact that the plane was a shitbox, the plane was completely fine and it was due to super foggy conditions when they were trying to land. They tried to land 4 times and had to keep going around, and on the 4th time when going around a wing clipped some trees and took down the plane. Even if it were a brand new boeing right off the assembly line, the same thing would have happened. It was due to weather conditions and likely pilot error.
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