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:39:50,2: Signal at F=845 Hz. Pursuing further. 10:40:04,7: TERRAIN AHEAD. D: 4 and on course. 10:40:32,4: TERRAIN AHEAD. ST: 200. KVS: On. ST: 150. D: 2 and on course. TERRAIN AHEAD, TERRAIN AHEAD. A: 100 metres. ST: 100. PULL UP, PULL UP. PULL UP, PULL UP. TERRAIN AHEAD, TERRAIN AHEAD. ST: 100. (2P): In the norm. ST: 90. PULL UP, PULL UP. ST: 80. 2P: We're aborting. (The crew decide to abort) Signal at F=400 Hz. (Unsafe altitude). PULL UP, PULL UP. ST: 60. ST: 50. D: Horizon 101. ST: 40. PULL UP, PULL UP. ST: 30. D: Altitude control,...

Contrary to earlier reports, the full, unabridged transcripts of the contents of black boxes recovered from the TU 154 which crashed in Smolensk on April 10 will not be made public, after Russia blocked the move. The Kremlin has said that publication of evidence is against the Chicago Convention on International Aviation (1948) which stipulates rules on the transfer of information about plane disasters across international borders. Poland’s Interior Minister Jerzy Miller met with Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ivanov in Moscow this morning, where the formal agreement to hand over the evidence was signed. Minister Miller later confirmed that:...

Pilot’s prayer recorded on Smolensk crash black box Apr 20, 2010 13:02 Moscow Time The flight recorders of the Polish President’s plane registered the prayer of the pilot before the Tu-154 crashed near Smolensk on April 10th killing 96 people on board. The Prosecutor General of Poland pledged to release all recordings of the pilots’ conversations. Two of the three black boxes from the presidential plane have already been deciphered and voice recordings of the third one are marred by noise and the information needs to be restored. Meanwhile, Polish experts are expected to arrive in Moscow to help identify...