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On 10 April 2010 a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M crashed near the Russian city of Smoleńsk. All 96 people aboard the plane were killed, including President Lech Kaczyński and his wife. American media coverage of the crash is best represented by The New York Times, which offered the following description of what happened: “President Kaczyński’s plane tried to land in a thick fog, missing the runway and snagging treetops about half a mile from the airport in Smoleńsk….” This version of events has been repeated throughout the English-speaking media, and is consistent with official Russian claims. What other claims...

Fifth in the cockpit voice recorded by black boxes and the Presidential Tu-154 belongs to a woman – gives RMF FM. This is a person who was not a close crew. The prosecutor did not disclose to whom the voice. The cockpit presidential Tupolev were four people: the pilot, copilot, navigator and mechanic. How am informed TVN24 – in flight – there are five people there too. This came to light when examining black boxes Tu-154. For the moment we do not know to whom it belongs. According to unofficial information, it is a woman’s voice. It may be appropriate...