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[Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:52 am
by Tan
About 90 Politics of Polish Government is Dead Including Polish President :( thats sad buts ture , they died at time flying to Katyn :(

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:37 am
by jurchiks
according to: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_ ... lane_crash
The presidential plane was a Soviet-built Tupolev TU154M, at least 20 years old. The Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer were on the passenger list.
Something was clearly NOT clean there... Too many important people on that plane.

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:47 am
by MELERIX
a president killed... :roll:

really is an accident ?

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:37 pm
by Aikimaniac
My deepest condolences to polish nation :( its a big loss for whole world...

Uprimnu sustrast celemu Polsku...

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:03 pm
by rocoder
MELERIX wrote: really is an accident ?
idk but is hard to believe was an accident :?

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:09 pm
by ThePhoenixBird
Shit happens... 20yo airplane and full of important people

My condolences to polish nation

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:13 am
by denser
politic games...with ppl lives :(
us-rockets wont wished at Poland...now i think they can set it up there...

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:51 pm
by Aikimaniac
denser wrote:politic games...with ppl lives :(
us-rockets wont wished at Poland...now i think they can set it up there...
bshit...pilots error...dont look for conspiracy there even when it looks like one..

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:50 pm
by jurchiks
well somehow it looks WAY TOO SUSPICIOUS for a plane to crash just like that with SO MANY important people on it! They wouldn't just let some "n00b" pilot a plane with president of a country onboard, you know?

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:18 pm
by Probe
20 Year old plane.
Eyesight was really bad, the entire region was all in a dense fog.
Russian flight instructor told the pilots it's too dangerous to land in that airfield in these conditions - and they decided to try anyway.
Perliminary investigations indicated that pilot descended too quickly and hit tree tops.


pardon me if I find it hard to see a conspiracy here :roll:

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:06 am
by jurchiks
lol... putting such dumb pilots for president's plane... still, might not be a coincidence :)

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:39 am
by Aikimaniac
jurchiks wrote:lol... putting such dumb pilots for president's plane... still, might not be a coincidence :)
you are the dumb one..pilot had his orders which he had to follow..to land at that fog wasnt possible on that airport but to land on other airport wasnt from political view possible... it was clearly political decision to land on Smolensk airport what ever it costs...

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:32 pm
by jurchiks
Russian flight instructor told the pilots it's too dangerous to land in that airfield in these conditions - and they decided to try anyway
...? Not the smartest decision, who's dumb here?

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:39 pm
by DrHouse
Probably 100% pilot error but look at this:

http://aviadocs.net/AIP/aip/ad/ad2/rus/ ... dd-txt.pdf

This is a part of Russian AIP (Airport Information Publication) talking about Salekhard, the airport to which the crashed plane was trying to approach. In the end of the document you will see

"USDD AD 2.19 RADIO NAVIGATION AND LANDING AIDS"

There you can check that approaches to principal runways are guided through ILS CAT I (Category I)

For guys not familiar to IFR navigation go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument ... categories and read about category I. This information is quoted from there:

"Category I (CAT I) - A precision instrument approach and landing with a decision height not lower than 200 feet (61 m) above touchdown zone elevation and with either a visibility not less than 800 meters (2,625 ft) or a runway visual range not less than 550 meters (1,804 ft)."

In this document (is in spanish... use google translator) http://www.losandes.com.ar/notas/2010/4 ... 483248.asp the man who wrote it says that visibility was about 400 meters. (Mind he made a mistake saying that visibility must be over 1000m ;) that's why nobody trusts journalists :P) So if this information is correct, pilot should not have tried to land on that airport, specially after 3 missed approaches.

I dont know either if this was a politic decission or pilot's, but the plane did crash into some trees during approach... Some pilots are more skilly than others and for sure the guy who fly for polish PM is not a noob, so maybe he just thought the landing was safe and, after 3 attempts, he was nervous and make a mistake.

No sign of conspiracy btw....

Re: [Breaking News]

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:44 pm
by jurchiks
wasn't it a civilian plane? 130 ppl...