Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in an air crash, and his twin brother Jaroslaw spoke on the phone half an hour before the tragedy that also killed many of the country's elite, a Polish member of the European Parliament said Sunday.
"President Lech Kaczynski called his brother Jaroslaw from the presidential Tu-154 plane 36 minutes prior to the tragic crash," Adam Bielan, who is also a companion of the Kaczynski brothers in the Law and Justice party, said.
The Polish president, his wife and other top officials died Saturday morning as the Soviet-made Tu-154 aircraft carrying them hit the top of trees as it attempted to land at a Smolensk airport in western Russia in thick fog. A total of 96 people on board - 88 passengers and eight crew - died.
Bielan said that Jaroslaw asked Lech whether he had landed in Smolensk and Lech answered "not yet," but added that it would happen soon.
WARSAW, April 11 (RIA Novosti)
