Posted on 04/12/2010 6:06:15 AM PDT by shortstop
First I can’t believe that many leaders of the Polish Government were on that plane.
That aside:
This has Kremlin all over it.
Can you imagine the look of amazement on Putin’s face when he heard the entire leadership of Poland was coming?
He must have said something like “I can’t believe my luck!”.
Then amazingly the pilot completely ignored Ground Control orders to not land at this airport, this while flying the most important plane, in Poland, carrying the most imnportant people of Poland.
The plane then offloaded fuel and well,... crashed. Killing the entire leadership of Poland.
Weird.
Chechnyans are mostly Islamic after performing religious cleansing in Chechnya, but their fight with Russia is one for independence. They want to break away from Russia. And if terrorist can take down that plane, no head of state on the planet is safe. Has Russia even described what their terrorism counter measures were for this event ?
Amazingly Russia very quickly found the black boxes. LOL. Can’t wait to hear what their interpretation is.
If you were the president of Poland (and intelligent) would you even go near Russia? Really!
Zactly
"The Germans did it."
Korean Airlines 007. Anyone? Anyone?
In Poland the Prime Minister is the one with most of the clout and chief policy maker. President is more of a figurehead position.
Being Suicidal, one might think the pilot understood the effects of gravity, on his life and the lives of the most important people in Poland.
I don’t believe in coincidences and Russia has been acting like the Bear of late.
They had just announced the other day that Presidential elections were to take place this October. I wonder how Kaczynski’s party will fare, will there by a sympathy vote against Tusk’s party?
General Sikorski. Anyone?
HUH? You kidding?
Well, it may have been easy to miss just as the lack of coverage by Newsers about this tragedy.
Heck, I had the TV on all weekend and even had dinner with friends on Saturday.
One friend, who I consider very intelligent had not the slightest amount of information regarding this. He had only seen a ticker tape under the News caster and that was about all he knew.
Doesn’t look good for the hens.
Nope. Russian responsibility for getting these leaders on the ground safely.
Scapegoating ain’t gonna fly and would show a serious flaw in their security and prestige.
Story is and will be pilot stupidity. No one is going prove otherwise.
That assumes the pilot had something to do with the crash.
Let’s just get to the truth of this.
Of course no one will believe the truth. (either a accident, or The Russians did it).
It’s looking like a pilot flying in very bad conditions, who didn’t want to say he couldn’t make the landing and made a catastrophic decision.
Political philosophy wise both Tusk and Kascinski were quite similar. The Poles as a whole are a very conservative country so it appears to be personality and style that candidates are selected by.
Every crisis is an opportunity.
Tusk’s party (PO) is more economically conservative, but very pro-EU, but also more socially liberal than Kaczynski’s (PiS) party, which is more socially conservative and Euro-Skeptic.
You can't rule out sabotage. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to screw with a planes electrical system prior to take-off or during maintenance.
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