Researchers find cigarette butt in the lungs of Smolensk plane crash victim during autopsy Monday, September 19, 2016 7:00:00 AM

A cigarette butt was found in the lungs of the former President of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski. This was discovered during the exhumation of the bodies of the victims of the Smolensk tragedy by Polish experts, who considered the autopsies conducted by Russia to be unreliable, Polish Radio reports.

Earlier, new evidence from the Sub-Commission on the investigation of the crash were presented in Poland. However, the causes of the deaths of 80 victims of the crash still remain unknown.

As the Polish Minister of National Defense, Antoni Macierewicz, stated, the Prosecutor’s Office received notification that case materials from the Smolensk tragedy had been falsified. According to him, the former Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, took responsibility for all actions related to the investigation of the tragedy.

According to Polish experts, the Smolensk tragedy began long before the collision of the President’s aircraft with the ground. The experts of the Special Sub-Commission found that a fragment from the left wing of the aircraft was lying a few dozen meters away from the birch tree in which President’s TU154M was allegedly caught. The investigation revealed that the aircraft began to collapse 900 meters away from the crash site.

The tragedy took place on 10th of April 2010 in Smolensk. The Polish Air Force Tu-154 aircraft crashed, killing all 96 people aboard (88 passengers – the representatives of the official Polish delegation headed by the President, Lech Kaczyński and eight crew members).

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