— Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
Posted on 07/29/2011 7:40:24 AM PDT by saganite
The crew of the plane carrying Poland's president that crashed in Russia last year killing all 96 on board were poorly trained and ignored crucial safety regulations, a long-awaited Polish government report into the disaster said on Friday.
The 328-page report, which may complicate Prime Minister Donald Tusk's bid for re-election in October, chronicles a long litany of errors and neglect by both the crew and Russian ground staff leading to the crash, which shook Poland to the core.
"There were serious shortcomings in the organization of the unit (of the air force responsible for handling VIP flights)," a member of the investigative commission, Maciej Lasek, told a news conference.
"In order for the unit to carry out its tasks, deliberate decisions were made to disregard or break procedures, to conduct training not in line with training regulations... Pilots straight out of flying schools were accepted and no training flights were carried out."
More experienced pilots had left for more lucrative work in the civilian aviation sector, said Lasek, himself a pilot.
"Of the crew members, only one technician had the proper credentials for the flight. Others did not have proper approval for this flight," he said.
President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, the heads of the armed forces and many senior officials died in the crash as their TU-154 Tupolev plane was trying to land on April 10, 2010, in thick fog near the western Russian city of Smolensk.
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The crash report, drawn up by a panel of 34 experts over 15 months, said the crew had failed to properly prepare some key equipment on board their TU-154 Tupolev, which hampered their ability to grasp how dangerous their predicament was.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.airwise.com ...
Oh yeah, right.
It’s the Polish report. Reporting on their own lack of crew competence. Take it or leave it.
This must be a website financed by Kremlin. Its staff had audicity to put such a smear about Polish president plane crew. This “information” is far from truth than Moon from the Earth. The truth is that military pilots with a long experience of flying with Russian garbage were in control of that plane. They have been flying for years with Polish president.
>>It’s the Polish report. Reporting on their own lack of crew competence. Take it or leave it.<<
I’m laughing at it!!
They must have been really incompetent if they made the KGB mad enough to shoot all the crash survivors!
— Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
Whatever. Some folks are more comfortable with a good conspiracy theory than mundane facts. Don’t let them get in the way if they don’t suit you.
Rounds cooking off from Polish weapons constitutes shooting survivors. Riiight.
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FYI: http://mswia.datacenter-poland.pl/FinalReportTu-154M.pdf
>>Whatever. Some folks are more comfortable with a good conspiracy theory than mundane facts. Don’t let them get in the way if they don’t suit you.<<
Two words. Ron Brown.
A Polish Aviation Accident Investigation Commission have released their final report in Polish, which agrees with the factual findings of the Russian report. The Polish commission concluded the probable cause of the crash was:
The descent below minimum descent altitude (MDA), with an excessive rate of descent, in atmospheric conditions which prevented visual contact with the runway. The decision to go-around was taken too late. This led to collision with terrain, the destruction of the left wing, consequently loss of control and loss of the aircraft.
Contributing factors were:
- unverified high barometric altimeter setting during a non-precision approach
- lack of reaction to TAWS warnings
- attempt to go around by pressing TOGA, which however was not armed
- tower ATC attempting to talk the aircraft down although the aircraft’s position was outside approach limits, the ATC instructions re-inforcing the crew’s belief they were conducting a proper approach
- failure of tower to inform the crew about being too low and instructing the crew to maintain level flight too late
- inappropriate/insufficient training of the crew on TU-154M aircraft
Unfavourable factors were:
- improper crew cooperation causing excessive load on the commander during the last phase of flight
- inadequate flight preparation
- insufficient knowledge of functions and limits of their aircraft by the crew
- improper monitoring of each other by all flight crew members, lack of corrective actions to mistakes
- incorrect selection of crew to perform the flight, íncorrect task assignment to crew members
- incorrect supervision of flight crew training
- the operator’s failure to set criteria for stabilised approach, runway and environmental requirements for various approach types, and crew cooperation
- the operator’s failure to ensure practical experience, especially at the Smolensk North aerodrome
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=429ec5fa/0034&opt=0
...Flight crew to gullible when listening to control tower comments...
Flight crew too inexperienced to fly their own airplane.
I wait until the Polish FReepers come in with an opinion. Until then.....Ron Brown.
You do realize Ron Brown wasn’t on the Polish aircraft? That the two incidents are totally different?
>>That the two incidents are totally different?<<
Not if they are both snow jobs.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
How fast people forget.
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