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  • Prosecutor investigates lightbulb changes at Smolensk airport

    04/20/2010 9:11:13 PM PDT · by theanchoragedailyruse · 14 replies · 737+ views
    Warsaw Business Journal ^ | April 20th, 2010 | unknown
    The National Public Prosecutor's Office is trying to determine whether Russian authorities made some minor repairs to the runway landing systems at the Smolensk airport following the plane crash on the morning of April 10. According to eyewitness accounts, after the crash – in which President Lech Kacyński and 95 others lost their lives – airport personnel were seen changing light bulbs on runway lights close to the airport, suggesting that at the time of the attempted landing the lights were broken. Colonel Zbigniew Rzepa, from the Chief Military Prosecutor's office, told PAP that the office is investigating reports that...