WARSAW, Poland - A Polish court on Thursday found the chief of staff for former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk guilty of negligence in a 2010 presidential flight to Russia which ended in a devastating crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Arabski was given a 10-month suspended prison sentence that is subject to appeal. Prosecutors argued that Smolensk airport should not have been considered as a destination for the presidential flight and that many other mistakes were made during preparations for the presidential trip. They blamed Arabski and demanded a 1.5-year suspended prison term. Polish investigators have blamed the crash on human error in bad weather and poor guidance by Russian traffic controllers.

Source: thestar June 13, 2019 13:23 UTC