Five years after the crash near Smolensk, the Polish prosecutor’s office indicted Russian air traffic controllers.
“Creating a situation of immediate danger in the air” is how? Smolensk dispatcher himself let the fog over the Katyn forest, creating bad weather conditions, or what?
And how could another dispatcher “bring the plane to a catastrophe” if he recommended the crew of the Tu-154 due to the poor meteorological conditions to send the Polish side No. XXUMX to the alternate aerodrome?
It must be recalled that more than 2,5 years ago, the Polish side, after conducting an investigation, confirmed the findings of the International Aviation Committee that the cause of the plane crash near Smolensk was a decrease below the minimum allowable height in adverse weather conditions, which did not allow it to go to the second round. At the same time, the recordings of the “black boxes” were published, from which it became clear that a representative of the Polish Defense Ministry was in the cockpit, who actually gave direct orders to the pilots to land without paying attention to the warnings of dispatchers.
Now, it turns out, the Polish prosecutor’s office blames both in bad weather conditions and the crew’s decision to sit “here and now” Russian dispatchers. One can only guess who Poland will indict even five years after the disaster that killed 96 people (including the President of Poland) ...
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