Polish President Lech Kaczynski' Funeral Arrangement

Kaczynski's family wants Sunday's funeral in Krakow to go ahead as planned, a presidential aide said. Senior officials were expected to take a final decision later in the day.

Tens of thousands of mourners continued to file past the coffins of Kaczynski and his wife Maria in Warsaw's presidential palace. Some had been waiting up to 18 hours to view the coffins, a measure of the grief felt by many Poles over the worst single disaster to hit their country since World War Two.

The heads of Poland's armed forces, its central bank governor and opposition lawmakers were also among the 96 people killed last Saturday when their aging Tupolev plane crashed in thick fog while trying to land near Smolensk in western Russia.