Polish Prosecutor General"s office said...

Polish president Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and an official Polish delegation of senior officials died when the plane taking them to a ceremony to pay tribute to some 20,000 Polish officers murdered by Soviet secret police crashed near west Russia"s Smolensk on April 10.

The Prosecutor General"s office said in a communique on Thursday that "a technical failure," "a crew mistake," "poor flight management and security" and "third party"s actions," such as a terrorist attack or pressure on the crew, were seen as possible causes of the crash, in which 96 people were killed.

Previous media reports ruled out a malfunction in one of the plane"s systems.

One of the most popular versions is that Kaczynski ordered the pilot to land in thick fog, although air traffic controllers gave no permission to land and recommended the crew to divert to another airport.

Poland"s chief prosecutor Andrzej Seremet earlier said that there was no proof that the pilot of the ill-fated

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