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Ahead of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s report, Wednesday, on the ongoing investigations in Poland and Russia of the causes of the Smolensk air disaster, it has been revealed that seconds before the crash an alarm system warned the pilots about the danger of flying too low. Analysis of black boxes show that the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) issued an alarm in the cockpit, thirty seconds before the plane hit the tops of trees one kilometer from the landing strip. It is possible, though, that the crew ignored the warning because they knew that the military airport near Smolensk was...

There are also reports that the man who was at the crash site and made the video has been murdered. This is a developing story and I will post more later…….. Pay attention to the last part of the video Bear in mind that Poland is the only country in Europe to to have refused the swine flu vaccine, due to the courageous action of the Polish Health Minister, Ewa Kopacz and Poland was the only country which had a central bank goveror that postponed or was unwilling to allow the zloty currency to strengthen in respect to the Euro...

The location of beacons at the military airfield in Smolensk is not standard, informs RZECZPOSPOLITA. The paper speculates this might have led to the pilot’s misinterpretation of the actual flight level, which caused the tragic accident of the Polish presidential plane on April 10th. Typically, such beacons are placed 1 and 4 kilometers from the start of the landing strip. This is only partially true at Smolensk, because their location on one side of the airport is 1 and 6 kilometers, respectively. This could certainly explain why on the fatal day the plane had descended to barely a few meters...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.globalnaswiadomosc.com/&ei=dNDTS6PSH4_6sQP6_4XFCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DWWW.GLOBALNASWIADOMOSC.COM%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2PCTC_enUS341 The link is to the site that has this. It is in translation form.

A warning system on board the doomed Tu-154, which crashed near Smolensk on April 10, might have been blocked, or turned off. Analysis of the black boxes suggests the pilot was unaware of how low he was flying, which is surprising since the craft was fitted with a special safety device called a Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) that warns the crew when the craft gets too close to the ground and prevents collision with obstacles such as hills, antennas or trees. The aircraft is known to have hit the top of trees as it attempted to land at...

Pictures of Russian military and militiamen, who a few hours after the tragedy at the airport exchange Smolensk headlamps and light bulbs in lamps indicating the location of aircraft from the runway, the newspaper published a Belarusian Internet "News Vitebsk". Wykonał je białoruski dziennikarz Siergiej Serebro. It was made a Belarusian journalist Sergei Serebro. Więcej zdjęć zamieścił na swoim blogu. More photos posted on his blog. Rozmawialiśmy z nim. We talked with him. - Lampy stały bez żarówek - stwierdza. - Standing lamps without bulbs - says.

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...

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Tupolev-154 jet that crashed near Smolensk on April 10th suffered significant damage and deciphering information in it poses considerable difficulty. The two flight data recorders are well preserved and have been fully examined – the Russian-made one, by a lab in Moscow, and the Polish-made one, by its makers in Poland. The work on the voice box is to continue in Moscow in cooperation with Polish engineers. On the coming Tuesday, the Polish side of the crash probe will unveil its findings at a Warsaw news conference.

WARSAW: Investigators blamed pilot error on Thursday for a crash that killed Poland's president, as harrowing details emerged of how the crew knew they were doomed after hitting trees while trying to land in Russia. As Poland's national unity fractured over plans to bury president Lech Kaczynski in a castle alongside kings and heroes, officials released the first results from analysis of the plane's black box flight recorders. "The crew was aware of the inevitability of the coming catastrophe, if only due to the plane shaking after the wings hit the trees -- which we are certain happened," Poland's chief...

Experts have examined two of three black boxes in the probe into what caused the plane crash that killed Poland's president and 94 other people, a Polish military prosecutor said. The third black box recorded the conversation between the pilots. "Experts are now trying to understand the words spoken during the last half hour of the flight," Col. Zbigniew Rzepa said. Rzepa ruled out any technical glitch that could have led to the disaster. He also said the pilots were aware of the imminent crash as the last seconds of the voice recordings "were dramatic." He would not elaborate