C. Flower
19-05-2010, 12:53 PM
http://news.ie.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=153441715
Preliminary findings are out from the Russian enquiry into the plane crash at Smolensk that killed a number of members of the Polish Government.
One of the voices has been identified but cannot be made public until the criminal investigation of the crash is completed, said Tatyana Anodina, the Russian official leading the investigation.
Preliminary findings show that the pilots should not have attempted to land in Smolensk on April 10th because visibility was too low due to heavy fog, Anodina said on state television today.
Technical failure, explosion and terrorism were all ruled out as possible causes, she said.
Mr Kaczynski was flying to Smolensk to honour the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police in the Katyn forest in 1940.
All 96 people on board died in the crash, including Polish central bank Governor Slawomir Skrzypek and the country's top four military leaders.
The left wing of the Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 clipped a birch tree as it descended and the airplane disintegrated in five or six seconds, said Alexei Morozov, one of the members of the investigation panel.
Its hardly surprising that people have been suspicious of this crash, given the significance of the people killed. Maybe we'll get a coherent, but mundane explanation at the end of this enquiry.
Preliminary findings are out from the Russian enquiry into the plane crash at Smolensk that killed a number of members of the Polish Government.
One of the voices has been identified but cannot be made public until the criminal investigation of the crash is completed, said Tatyana Anodina, the Russian official leading the investigation.
Preliminary findings show that the pilots should not have attempted to land in Smolensk on April 10th because visibility was too low due to heavy fog, Anodina said on state television today.
Technical failure, explosion and terrorism were all ruled out as possible causes, she said.
Mr Kaczynski was flying to Smolensk to honour the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police in the Katyn forest in 1940.
All 96 people on board died in the crash, including Polish central bank Governor Slawomir Skrzypek and the country's top four military leaders.
The left wing of the Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 clipped a birch tree as it descended and the airplane disintegrated in five or six seconds, said Alexei Morozov, one of the members of the investigation panel.
Its hardly surprising that people have been suspicious of this crash, given the significance of the people killed. Maybe we'll get a coherent, but mundane explanation at the end of this enquiry.