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  • Polish president had history of dangerous landings

    04/11/2010 7:20:06 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 34 replies · 1,415+ views
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | April 12, 2010 | Emma Alberici
    A leading Polish defence analyst says late president Lech Kaczynski was well known for ordering pilots to land in dangerous conditions. The Polish leader was one of 97 people killed when his Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 came down in thick fog near the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday on its fourth attempt to land. Russian officials are investigating whether pilot error was to blame. Mr Kaczynski's delegation was headed to a memorial service in Katyn for 22,000 Poles who were massacred by Soviet secret police during World War II, a historic wound which has still not healed despite the passage...