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  • Polish radio says crew distracted before 2010 Smolensk plane crash

    04/07/2015 9:13:56 AM PDT · by Freelance Warrior · 5 replies
    Gulf Times ^ | April, 7, 2015
    In the minutes before a 2010 plane crash that killed Poland's president, members of the president's entourage urged the crew to land despite thick fog, according to what a radio station said was a leaked transcript of cockpit conversations. In the transcript, the crew on several occasions ask people to be quiet or to leave the cockpit, and conversations suggest people in or around the cockpit were drinking beer, though there is no indication the crew themselves consumed alcohol. The radio station, RMF FM, said the transcript was from the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the aircraft wreckage soon after...