13 April,2010 10:10 AM IST | | AFP
The pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland's president had received explicit weather warnings before they attempted to land at a fog-bound Russian airport, investigators said.
Russian officials said flight data showed air traffic controllers recommended the crew divert to another airport while Polish prosecutors said there was no indication they were pressured by those onboard to override the advice.
As crews battled to retrieve bodies from the wreckage of a crash that killed all 96 people on board, including much of Poland's political and military elite, experts also struggled to identify mutilated remains.
Poland meanwhile announced that a memorial service would be held on Saturday for President Lech Kaczynski and the other victims of the country's worst tragedy of the post-war era.
They were heading to a memorial service for Poles massacred after their capture by Soviet forces in World War II. K
Kaczynski's body is the only one so far to have been repatriated to Poland where he will lie in state from today.
Grieving relatives have been flown to Moscow to try to speed up the process of identifying the corpses, many of them disfigured beyond recognition.
Police formed a tight security cordon around the city morgue, where buses brought the families to attend the identification.
