The body of president Kaczynski was identified by his twin brother Jaroslaw and flown to Warsaw yesterday, while his wife Maria Kaczynska's body was identified today and is set to be repatriated tomorrow.
Russian investigators today pointed to possible human error on the part of the pilot of Tu-154 aircraft for the crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others, while ruling out any technical problems with the Soviet-era plane.
The pilot of the Polish presidential plane was warned of the bad weather conditions and was advised by air-traffic controllers to land elsewhere, officials said, two days after the crash in Smolensk.
"The readings confirm that there were no problems with the plane, and that the pilot was informed about the difficult weather conditions, but nevertheless decided to land," Deputy prosecutor general Alexander Bastrykin said during a briefing.
Investigators would double-check the readings of the flight recorder, he added.
Meanwhile, there were reports of more bodies lying trapped in the wreckage of the plane.
"Work is ongoing to build an access route for heavy machinery which will be used to raise the major parts of the aircraft and remove the remaining bodies," chief prosecutor Andrzej Seremet told reporters, adding eighty-seven bodies have already been located.
The body of president Kaczynski was identified by his twin brother Jaroslaw and flown to Warsaw yesterday, while his wife Maria Kaczynska's body was identified today and is set to be repatriated tomorrow.
Investigators are still searching for the remains of the victims that could be scattered around the site or buried in the ground rather than in the wreckage of the plane.
Quoting a source connected with the operation, Ria-Novosti said several fragments of bodies were discovered at the site yesterday after presumably all remains of the victims had been removed from the wreckage and sent to Moscow.
A special flight from Warsaw carrying the first batch of relatives of passengers arrived here overnight.
Polish health minister Ewa Kopacz said most of the bodies were beyond recognition and "their identification required DNA tests".
"Only 14 bodies of the victims could be identified by relatives without problems. Another 20 bodies could be identified by forensic experts, while DNA testing would be necessary to confirm the identity of the rest of the victims," he said.
The Moscow city government has reserved 400 rooms in three hotels and will bear all the expenses of the relatives of the crash victims during their stay in Moscow, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told TV channels.
Thousands of Russians have been coming to the Polish Embassy in Moscow and diplomatic missions in St Petersburg and Kaliningrad to pay their last respects to Lech Kaczynski and other victims by laying flowers, lighting candles and signing condolence book.
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