The plane containing First Lady Maria Kaczyńska’s coffin has arrived in Warsaw.

The CASA military aircraft touched down at 10.40 CET at Warsaw’s military airport and the coffin, draped in the Polish flag, was met by Marta Kaczynska, daughter of the Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Maria and the late president’s twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

At Moscow's Domodedovo airport a farewell ceremony was attended by the First Lady's brother, Konrad Mackiewicz, Polish ambassador to Moscow Jerzy Bahr, ministers in the Presidential Chancellery Andrzej Duda and Bozena Borys and representatives from the Russian Government.

Maria Kaczynska’s body was identified yesterday from an inscription on the wedding ring given to her by her late husband, Lech Kaczynski.

Her immediate family are waiting at Warsaw’s military airport to greet the coffin.

The body of Mary Kaczyńska will be transported to the Presidential Palace where it will be laid to rest alongside her husband. (pg)