"President Kaczinski liked to intervene in the actions of the commanders in his plane"

[Ghost Dog]

10 April 2010 | 21:42 | FOCUS News Agency Moscow. According to the initial information the pilots of the Tu-154 had tried to land three times at Severnii airport by the town of Smolensk despite the dense fog and the warnings of the dispatchers.

There are three versions for the crash so far – bad meteorological conditions, technical failure and pilots error, Russian NTV television reported.

Today’s flight of the Polish President Lech Kaczinski was passing normally but the dispatchers in Belarus started warning about a dense fog near Smolensk. The pilots were offered to land at spare airports but they decided to land here, despite the instructions of Russian dispatchers.

Journalists in Polish media had reported several times President Kaczinski liked to intervene in the actions of the commanders in his plane. Thus one of the pilots was dismissed and was almost arrested after he refused to fulfill an order of his President over security reasons.

/.. http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n216142

Looks like this man may have been directly responsible for his own death and that of so many others.

[malaise]

1. I suggested in another thread that the pilot was probably under pressure

to land there given the number of important persons on board. Note that the Russians refused to let one of their own military aircraft land but could not refuse the Polish officials the right to land.

Remember it wasn't only the President there to pressure him - the head of the army was there as well.

[Ghost Dog]

2. I think you're right.

Whether this will make the pilots' families feel better or not, I don't know.

[malaise]

3. Well they found the black boxes so

at least they'll hear the truth.
By the way, the link was posted is very good. Had lots of information
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n216142&chain=1

[CynicalObserver]

4. honestly, I don't believe anything being written about this event

or the alleged behavior of the president or whomever should be taken as anything other than news/perception management.

The president of poland, the staunchest US ally of the former warsaw pact members, along with a VERY long list of senior civilian and military leaders, have died in a plane crash in russia, while on their way to commerorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, where the USSR murdered the entire surviving polish officer corp. Anyone who thinks the world political scene and former ssr's/warsaw pact members in particular aren't reading the entire subtext of this event very carefully, is dreaming. This is the same russia that INVADED georgia, and that proposed coordinated dumping of us gov. agency debt to china. Putin plays hardball by a very hard set of rules, and he had made clear he is willing to take fairly brazen chances. Given the number of date-synchronized events associated with or attributed to him in the past, how can anyone automatically believe something as extraordinary as this was anything but what it seems most likely to have been?