| 1 | The crash occurred about 1.5 km from the Smolensk airport in foggy conditions. | |
| 2 | What he talked about to me was his childhood - about what it was like to grow up in Smolensk, and about the war. | |
| 3 | He made the fateful decision to re-cross Poland and Lithuania and strike directly at Moscow via Smolensk. | |
| 4 | He was due in Smolensk later Saturday, where he would meet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was flying in from Warsaw. | |
| 5 | The governor of the Smolensk region, where the crash took place about 11 a.m. (0700 GMT), said no one survived. |