Poland faults Russia in presidential plane crash report

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1. I remember when the first accounts of this came out. The Polish tried to land

several times but were denied...


"It has been established that non-crew members were in the cockpit," Chairperson of CIS Interstate Aviation Committee Tatyana Anodina today announced.

A Soviet-made Tu-154 aircraft crashed on April 10 when it attempted to land in thick fog, killing all 96 people on board, including President Lech Kaczynski and other top state officials.She said the voice of one person was identified while the others are being identified by Polish officials.

Anodina did not specify the number of people in the cockpit or their identities.
The Interstate Aviation Committee said Russian controllers had repeatedly warned the crew of Polish president plane of bad weather conditions and landing should be avoided.
"The lead controller warned the crew twice about fog at the airport, visibility of 400 meters, and that landing is impossible," a probe expert said.

Poland is carrying out its own parallel probe into the crash in which the country's top military and political elite was killed.Investigators still did not offer concrete conclusions about the cause of the crash more than five weeks after the tragedy, however they said an act of terror, technical failure or an explosion have all been ruled out.http://www.deccanherald.com/content/70425/non-crew-members-present-polish.html