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Russia Points to Pilot Error in Polish President’s CrashPosted on Jan 12, 2011
Last April’s plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, which claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other passengers, was due to error on the part of the Tu-154’s Polish pilots—or so say Russian investigators, drawing mixed reactions from the Polish side. —KA
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By JohannG, January 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment
Like many other pilots I’ve been waiting for the
Report thisresults of this investigation into what caused this
entirely avoidable tragedy. Would like to read a
transcript of the cockpit voice data recorder but am reasonably certain that blame for this incident rests
mainly with the high-ranking passengers which put
such pressures on the pilots that these pilots preferred their kamikaze landing attempt to facing
the consequences of aborting the landing and
selecting the alternate landing site. Unlike the
public, Nature can not be fooled is the lesson that
politicians everywhere need to learn over and over
again.