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The new sensational details of the Smolensk disaster: military airport, where he had landed the plane with the president, does not have its own weather station. Control Tower uses data from the remote station by up to 10 kilometers, in addition located at a different height. This means that Russian investigators had no accurate data about the weather, which prevailed on April 10 at the airport and handed Polish pilots inaccurate parameters. - It's grotesque. They forecast the eye - says the fact George Polack (49 l.), a former minister and member of the Sejm Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation explaining...

Just recently, in a news article found here in the Polish press, it is now stated that the Russian controller lied to the crew on PLF 101. Inspectors falsified data on the visibility of the Smolensk airport and they then gave false information to the crew Polish Tupolev. As prosecutors and testified against the Russians, would thus discourage the Poles to land. The fact came to the content of these testimonies. They are shocking. Because they show that people who should give the parameters necessary for the safe planting machine at the airport runway, in its sole discretion ming them....

Inspectors falsified data on the visibility of the Smolensk airport and they then gave false information to the crew Polish Tupolev. As prosecutors and testified against the Russians, would thus discourage the Poles to land. The fact came to the content of these testimonies. They are shocking. Because they show that people who should give the parameters necessary for the safe planting machine at the airport runway, in its sole discretion ming them. Russian investigators and Victor Paul Pliusnin Ryzenko prosecutors testified that, although the visibility at the airport Siewiernyj was then 800 meters, they deliberately gave the Polish pilots,...

We are investigating this topic - we acknowledge the district military prosecutor in Warsaw. Nasi śledczy nie wykluczają, że oficer ten był w stałym telefonicznym kontakcie ze zwierzchnikami w Moskwie i decydował o poczynaniach kontrolerów. Our investigators do not rule out that this officer was in constant telephone contact with superiors in Moscow and determine the doings of the controllers. Ale nie mogą doprosić się o zgodę na jego przesłuchanie. But they can not solicit the consent of his hearing. Rosja nie odpowiada na nasze oficjalne wnioski o pomoc prawną. Russia does not correspond to our formal requests for legal...

Here are the so-called APM's (gates) the Polish crew on the Yak 40 spoke about and the Russian ATC told the pilots were turned on. The photos above were taken after the crash. The approach plate for Runway 26 does not show "gates" but Runway 08 does. There is no proof that there were "gates" turned on. In fact, the Russians shown in the photos are correcting the faulty approach lights. Military vehicle and two military antennas at radio beacon. Close up of clam shell antenna at Smolensk. A photo taken later and the unit is moved to in...

I have been following for sometime, the stories on the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and I wanted to wait until the release of the final report on the tragic crash before I would write down the facts on events with the crash. The final report states that it was pilot error. I am not surprised by this. The Tusk administration has gone along with the Russians in their investigation. Interestingly, Minister of Defence Klich agrees with the Russians, it is noted below by Klich: Klich a doctor of psychiatry, has been singled out as the key figure responsible...

The radio tower at Smolensk airport may have been dysfunctional on the fateful morning of April 10, and contributed to the Polish presidential airplane disaster. Signals from the radio tower were problematic to the Polish crew of a Yak-40, which landed in Smolensk about an hour before the presidential Tu-154. It was the last airplane to successfully land at the airport that day. Just minutes prior to the crash, a Russian Il-76 diverted to Moscow after it was unable to stabilize its approach to landing. The Yak's Polish crew saw it veer to the left of the runway, a mistake...

He reached the place a moment after the presidential Tupolev crashed into the ground. In his own eyes he saw flames gushing from the wreck, terrified onlookers rozganiajÄ…cych militiamen, he heard sirens and the fire brigade rushing sounds like gunshots. Vladimir Ivanov (27 l.), a mechanic from Smolensk all recorded phone and posted on the Internet. Do not expect that his film will trigger such a sensation. And much speculation. Today we present his account of what really has happened around the presidential airplane wreckage shortly after the tragedy. For Vladimir Ivanov, author of the film, which is one of...

Russians did not want the Polish presidential plane to land in Smolensk, suggesting the airport in Bryansk instead. Polish authorities insisted on landing near Katyn, however. Russian authorities warned the Polish delegation that they could not guarantee safety if the presidential Tu-154 landed near Smolensk, as the town’s Severny military airport was not fitted with proper guidance systems. The Russians suggested that the Polish plane should land at Bryansk International Airport, some 250 km from Katyn. However, Andrzej Kremer, deputy Foreign Minister and Andrzej Przewoznik, Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, who had previously...

BOR Officers found the body of the President through the chip, which was Kaczynski. He immediately covered the them their jackets. A Russian department was ordered to quickly export the body. Now, apparently BOR were suspended in activities as "unauthorized use of weapons." Examiner in his report refers to a conversation with one of the officers who participated in the entire incident. He confirmed that visible on the recording, the men in suits, the officers BOR. Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, George Miller in an interview with Tok FM denied reports in the newspaper. The Minister confirmed only the...

Russia was last night facing claims of a cover up over the Polish presidential air crash after a series of shocking allegations emerged concerning the doomed Tupolev-154 in which head of state Lech Kaczynski died. Most extraordinary was the emergence of confusing footage which claimed to show the shooting of survivors by armed Russian-speaking men minutes after the crash. The video, posted on the internet in recent days, has fuelled conspiracy theories suggesting that the crash was not an accident.

Smolensk - In the slow investigation to the possible cause of the air disaster of Smolensk, 10 April will determine the prosecution is now the author of a video film, which already accounts for four weeks in the Internet sensation. These are the pictures just minutes after the crash of the Tupolev caused to the crash site were. The movie seems so so spectacular, since scenes are shown pointing to crime. Polish experts of the Federal Security ABW have now confirmed the authenticity of the film in terms of time and place. On a Russian Webeseite appeared a few hours...

When the presidential Tupolev Tu-154 began to fall on the road to the airport in Smolensk, he needed even less than 5 seconds, or about 400 meters to back off the ground. This just run out. As is clear from the records of the test in Poland airplane black box. As he says, "Official Legal Newspaper," when the pilot Arkadiusz Protasiuk realized that it is too close to the ground, trying to pick up the machine. Reached 60 percent. power, which is confirmed by witnesses interviewed by the Russian prosecutor's office who have heard them howl when the plane flew...

Initial results have indicated that the inflight warning systems installed on the presidential Tupolev, which crashed on 10 April, were all properly functional. The results of the tests have been sent to the Russian commission into the crash at Smolensk, which killed President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and 94 other Polish dignitaries onboard the Tu-154. Edmund Klich, the Polish observer to the Russian investigation, is reported to have received the test results on Monday, although is refusing to release any details. Last week, Russian and Polish experts flew to the US to visit the producer of the TAWS (Terrain Awareness...

Around 2,500 demonstrated gathered outside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Sunday, demanding an international, and independent investigation be set up into the causes of the April 10 Smolensk disaster. Crowds shouted: “We want the truth”. The protest was organised by the April 10 Movement, which expressed, in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a distrust of the current Russian-Polish investigation into the tragedy which killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. "Because of the exceptional importance to the Polish nation of the presidential plane crash near Smolensk, on 10 April 2010, which killed the President of the Republic,...

Rzeczpospolita journalists have come across a Polish-Russian deal dated July 7, 1993. It drafts up a framework for a common investigation in the case of a military aircraft going doing somewhere over the two countries. The Polish government is silent on the agreement. Meanwhile, nearly a month after the tragedy that saw Polish president Lech Kaczyński die in a plane crash over Smolensk, the public still doesn't know why Russia is leading the investigation alone, nor why Warsaw didn't lobby Moscow for an equal role in the investigation. Source: Rzeczpospolita

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...

Military prosecutors already have satellite pictures of the presidential Tupolev crash near Smolensk – told a reporter RMF FM Krzysztof principle. Military prosecutors who are investigating the crash, confined itself to stating that it was “very important evidence.” Investigators have received photos several days ago from U.S. National Security Agency, which, inter alia zawiaduje satellite system of the United States. The proposal in this regard by the Ministry of Defence. Materials are examined by our investigators, but does not give you any, even the general answers to questions about what the camera recorded the American satellites. The Polish authorities, which...

A preliminary report into the Smolensk tragedy may become available Tuesday, or shortly following the Polish Prosecutor General's visit to Moscow on Wednesday. The visit will also reveal if analysis of the final black box on board the doomed Tupolev Tu-154 is complete. The General Prosecutor, Andrzej Seremet, will travel to Russia to familiarize himself with the Russian report on readings from the black boxes, while findings from an in-flight recorder tested in Poland will be turned over to Russian investigators.Mr Seremet will not return to Poland with evidence relating to the Smolensk catastrophe. But his visit in Moscow is...

One of the hypotheses that the military prosecutor examines the reasons for establishing the presidential Tupolev crash near Smolensk, is a bad organization and security of flight, including abnormalities of the Polish and Russian ground staff. According to Rzeczpospolita prosecutors seized documents from the Centre for Hydrometeorology of the Armed Forces (CHSZ). Who should warn pilots Military Hydrometeorology Centre, which is responsible for informing the pilots about weather conditions, with poor visibility due to fog in the vicinity of the airport Smolensk-Siewiernyj learned just minutes before the crash (if we assume that the Tu-154 crashed into the ground in the...