Posted on 04/10/2010 5:57:13 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
Pilot error blamed as witnesses report three or four attempts to land in thick fog
Poland in mourning as Prime Minister calls emergency meeting
Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria have been killed after their plane crashed on approach to Smolensk airport in western Russia.
There were conflicting reports today of the number of people on board the flight. Russian news agencies reported at least 88 people died in the crash near Smolensk airport in western Russia, citing the Russian Emergencies Ministry. They reported 132 people were aboard the Tupolev Tu-154.
But Polish officials said 88 people were on board when the plane crashed. Sky News reported 96 dead.
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I eagerly await the announcement of our FAA investigators headed to Russia to assist after Hussein demanded it. /sarcasm
RIP
Regards
Our Lady of Czestochowa, Pray for them.
RIP, friends of America.
Holy Mother of Czestochowa,thou art full of grace, goodness and mercy. I consecrate to thee all my thoughts, words and actions, my soul and body. I beseech thy blessings and especially prayers for my salvation. Today, I consecrate myself to thee, Good Mother, totally, with body and soul amid joy and sufferings to obtain for myself and others thy blessings on this earth and eternal life in Heaven.
Amen.
Have we even heard from our Dear Leader about this yet?
Tragic news. Prayers.
Agree, I can’t get the image of Obama and Putin doing a fist bump over this. They both hate freedom, and therefore, Poland.
Very sad news.... wieczny odpoczynek
Dear Leader hates Poland and hated Kaczynski. He will not attend the funeral. President Bush will attend.
Katyn massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
On 13 April 1990, the forty-seventh anniversary of the discovery of the mass graves, the USSR formally expressed “profound regret” and admitted Soviet secret police responsibility. That day is also an International Day of Katyn Victims Memorial.
After Poles and Americans discovered further evidence in 1991 and 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin released the top-secret documents from the sealed “No. 1.” and transferred them to the new Polish president Lech Walesa, Among the documents was a proposal by Lavrenty Beria dated with 5 March 1940 to execute 25,700 Poles from Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobels camps, and from certain prisons of Western Ukraine and Belarus, signed by Stalin (among others); an excerpt from the Politburo shooting order of 5 March 1940; and Aleksandr Shelepin’s 3 March 1959 note to Nikita Khrushchev, with information about the execution of 21,857 Poles and with the proposal to destroy their personal files.
So tragic. I hope I’m not being naive in thinking it really must be an accident.
Wonder if the President of Poland and his wife had any kids?
hahhaha sure
All (American at least) commercial aircraft have had CATAGORY III automatic landing systems since the 1970's. The latest have CAT III-B.
Those will land a plane perfectly in ZERO visibility with absolutely no pilot input other than turning it on. There is a "decision height", but the pilot KNOWS he's over the runway, at least.
It does, indeed, seem "incredible" in the literal sense of "not true"...
That's what Russia always says.
russia rebuilding the block?
KGB has run Russia forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
“The NKVD contained the regular, public police force of the USSR (including traffic police, firefighting, border guards and archives) but is better known for the activities of the Gulag and the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB), which eventually became the Committee for KGB State Security.”
NKVD > KGB
Nothing changed.
It sure seems like it.
Prayers lifted for the polish people....a staunch friend of the American people....
Only a daughter.
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